Beneficial Effects of Disengagement from Futile Struggles with Occupational Planning: A Contextualist-Motivational Approach

Autor/inn/en	Tomasik, Martin J.; Silbereisen, Rainer K.
Titel	Beneficial Effects of Disengagement from Futile Struggles with Occupational Planning: A Contextualist-Motivational Approach
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 48 (2012) 6, S.1785-1796 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0026952
Schlagwörter	Well Being; Foreign Countries; Economic Opportunities; Career Planning; Labor Market; Motivation; Career Development; Occupational Aspiration; Economic Factors; Adults; Predictor Variables; Hypothesis Testing; Age Differences; Older Adults; Interviews; Life Satisfaction; Participation; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Ausland; Karriereplanung; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Berufsentwicklung; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Ökonomischer Faktor; Prädiktor; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Älterer Erwachsener; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lebensvollendung; Teilnahme; Deutschland
Abstract	Globalized labor markets confront many adults, both employed and unemployed, with demands arising from career uncertainty that have the potential to jeopardize their occupational planning. This article investigated how individuals in different regions of Germany, which are characterized by different economic opportunities, negotiate such demands to pursue a career. The central hypothesis is that under unfavorable economic conditions, disengagement from demands of career planning, in terms of reducing commitment to their mastery, will predict positive changes in subjective well-being. This was tested using a sample of N = 806 adults living in 91 regions of Germany. Results suggest that disengagement predicts increased subjective well-being, but only if individuals report a very high load of demands of career planning and live in regions characterized by particularly poor opportunities for goal striving. It is concluded that disengagement can be an adaptive way of mastering occupational planning under particularly disadvantageous circumstances. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10