Beneficial effects of disengagement from futile struggles with occupational planning: A contextualist-motivational approach

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1785-1796

  Tomasik, Martin J ^a   Silbereisen, Rainer K ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Career uncertainty; Disengagement; Globalization; Occupational planning; Secondary control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION; UNCERTAINTY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAREER CHOICE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT; GERMANY; GOALS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872660850     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026952     Document Type: Article

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