Purpose and Meaning in Career Development Applications
- 3 October 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Counseling Psychologist
- Vol. 43 (4), 558-585
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000014546872
Abstract
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.Keywords
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