@phdthesis{Beinicke2017,
  author    = {Beinicke, Andrea},
  title     = {Career Construction Across the Life Span: Career Choice and Career Development},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-117447},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {This dissertation contributes to deepen our understanding of constructs that play a key role in individuals' vocational career construction. In this regard, many previous studies have focused exclusively on a specific phase of an individual's career. Yet, modern societies require continuous investments in one's career to adapt to changing Environments throughout the life span. Consequently, this dissertation takes a broad approach to capture a wide spectrum of career construction processes. According to Super's (1990) developmental stage framework, individuals have to manage vocational developmental tasks corresponding to each of the developmental life stages in order to be career mature across the life span. As the two stages exploration and maintenance set the stage for individuals' future career pathways, they are especially important in individuals' vocational career construction. Therefore, both of them are addressed in this dissertation. By answering open research questions relevant to career choice in early career stages and to career development in later career stages, this dissertation contributes to the overarching goal of shedding more light on constructs relevant to individuals' vocational career construction processes across the life span. Beyond the results presented within each study's horizon, this dissertation aimed at offering practical guidance to career counselors, trainees, and training and development (T\&D) professionals. Career counselors and T\&D professionals are involved in guiding vocational career construction processes of individuals across the life span. Thus, on the one hand, this dissertation supports career counselors' work so that they can help deliberating individuals make optimal and effective career choices. On the other hand, this dissertation facilitates T\&D professionals' work so that they can effectively design and evaluate e-learning and classroom trainings in corporate educational settings. Identifying individuals' vocational interests combined with cognitive abilities through adequate test measures and maximizing success of learning and success of transfer through fostering evidence-based transfer support actions will help individuals adapt quickly to the changing nature of work environments in the 21st century and to continue to successfully construct careers across the life span.},
  subject      = {Karriere},
  language  = {en}
}