Purpose and meaning in career development is a rapidly growing, cross-disciplinary area of research and practice in which counseling and vocational psychology aligns with positive psychology to yield promising applications to career counseling. We provide a brief overview of theory related to purpose and meaning in work, then review six specific areas of application: strengths, positive emotions and flow, gratitude, work hope, job crafting, and perceiving and living a calling. The links of these applications to theory and research are emphasized, and recommendations are offered for how counseling and vocational psychologists might leverage these applications in their work with clients engaged in the career development process.
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Journal of Employment Counseling
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Journal of Career Assessment
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Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi took the psychology research community by storm in 2000 with their paper on positive psychology, introducing it as an academically rigorous antidote to the pathology-driven paradigm that had dominated the discipline for nearly a century. Since then the number of studies and papers published on the topic has grown exponentially, and the growing body of evidence around both theory and practice is making the links between positive psychology, career development and career coaching, increasingly clear. This paper will explore the evidence, the processes and the tools of positive psychology career coaching. It will describe the contribution that positive psychology research has made to our understanding of the career context, looking specifically at the links between career and subjective well being and the antecedents of job satisfaction. The paper will then explore how positive psychology can inform and enhance both the process and content of career coachi.
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The Journal of Education, Culture, and Society
Constructing a career path based upon positive perso nal potential and positive indivi- dual resources is a signiÞ cant factor for professional development of employees and their success on today's labour market. A satisfying career, an inherent element of personal well- -being and good life, is linked with an ability to explore and reinforce signature strengths. In order to effectively design programmes which could support young people who are preparing to enter a job market, it is essential to acquire knowledge about values and cha- racter strengths and their perceptions among young people living in Poland and abroad. The article presents comparative analysis of signature strengths perceptions among young people in different cultures and discusses the signiÞ cance of the most striking differences.
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Journal of Organizational Behavior
Summary This article has the dual purpose of expanding an understanding of the relationship between subjective and objective careers, and describing one condition under which the subjective career takes on particular salience: when the person feels a sense of calling in his or her .
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Journal of Career Development
This article describes and demonstrates a novel approach to assessing goals and motives among individuals engaged in the career decision-making and planning process. Participants generated five career development strivings, rated each striving along several dimensions (self-efficacy, outcome expectations, sense of calling, spiritual significance, and materialism), and completed measures of conceptually related and unrelated variables. Results indicated adequate to strong internal consistency reliability for the strivings appraisal scale scores, and the pattern of correlations support the convergent and discriminant validity for scores obtained using this approach. We conclude that the career development strivings strategy has great potential as a flexible and efficient tool for use in career development research and practice.
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