Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making
Career decision-making is arguably at its most complex within professions where work is precarious and career calling is strong. This article reports from a study that examined the career decision-making of creative industries workers, for whom career decisions can impact psychological well-being an...
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Plenum Publishing Corporation
2018
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| author | Bennett, Dawn Hennekam, S. |
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| description | Career decision-making is arguably at its most complex within professions where work is precarious and career calling is strong. This article reports from a study that examined the career decision-making of creative industries workers, for whom career decisions can impact psychological well-being and identity just as much as they impact individuals’ work and career. The respondents were 693 creative industries workers who used a largely open-ended survey to create in-depth reflections on formative moments and career decision-making. Analysis involved the theoretical model of self-authorship, which provides a way of understanding how people employ their sense of self to make meaning of their experiences. The self-authorship process emerged as a complex, non-linear and consistent feature of career decision-making. Theoretical contributions include a non-linear view of self-authorship that exposes the authorship of visible and covert multiple selves prompted by both proactive and reactive identity work. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-723052019-06-27T07:21:27Z Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making Bennett, Dawn Hennekam, S. Career decision-making is arguably at its most complex within professions where work is precarious and career calling is strong. This article reports from a study that examined the career decision-making of creative industries workers, for whom career decisions can impact psychological well-being and identity just as much as they impact individuals’ work and career. The respondents were 693 creative industries workers who used a largely open-ended survey to create in-depth reflections on formative moments and career decision-making. Analysis involved the theoretical model of self-authorship, which provides a way of understanding how people employ their sense of self to make meaning of their experiences. The self-authorship process emerged as a complex, non-linear and consistent feature of career decision-making. Theoretical contributions include a non-linear view of self-authorship that exposes the authorship of visible and covert multiple selves prompted by both proactive and reactive identity work. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72305 10.1177/0018726717747369 Plenum Publishing Corporation fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Bennett, Dawn Hennekam, S. Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making |
| title | Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making |
| title_full | Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making |
| title_fullStr | Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making |
| title_short | Self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making |
| title_sort | self-authorship and creative industries workers’ career decision-making |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72305 |