Job Satisfaction Among Type C Career Changers

Kirk, James J.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1920.1989.tb00254.x

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“…Religion changers expressed more themes of communal growth than did career changers. We expected this to be the case since religious institutions emphasize the role of communal concerns (Paloutzian, 1996), whereas work environments tend to support and reward the virtues of agentic concerns (e.g., Kirk, 1989). However, career changers did not have more agenticgrowth themes than religion changers.…”

Section: Career Changers Versus Religion Changersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personal Growth in Adults' Stories of Life Transitions

Bauer

McAdams²

2004

Journal of Personality

260

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This study identified four themes of personal growth (integrative, intrinsic, agentic, and communal) in adults' stories of life transitions in careers and religions. Specific themes were expected to relate differentially to two forms of personality development (socialcognitive maturity and social-emotional well-being) and to transition satisfaction. Integrative themes correlated primarily with social-cognitive maturity (ego development; Loevinger, 1976), whereas intrinsic themes correlated primarily with social-emotional well-being. Agentic-growth themes correlated primarily with transition satisfaction, whereas communal-growth themes correlated primarily with global well-being. Themes of agentic and communal growth also differentiated the two types of transitions studied-changes in careers and changes in religions-in ways that both supported and contradicted traditional notions of those transitions. We discuss these findings in terms of narrative meaning making, the mature and happy person, and intentional self-development via life transitions. This paper explores how stories of life transitions relate to personality development. Life transitions represent periods of heightened self-

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Section: Career Changers Versus Religion Changersmentioning

confidence: 99%