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Stability and Change in 25‐Year Occupational Career Patterns
Author(s) -
Jepsen David A.,
Choudhuri Enakshi
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2001.tb00884.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , cohort , job satisfaction , psychology , career pathways , career development , gerontology , demography , social psychology , medicine , sociology , medical education , population
The authors identify and describe occupational career patterns (OCPs) over 25 years for a single grade cohort of 170 rural high school graduates. OCP is the sequence of 1 person's work positions during the adolescent and adult years; a Stable OCP is experienced by persons engaged in the same type of occupation over their entire working career. More than one third of the respondents experienced Stable OCPs. Men experience greater OCP stability than women. OCP stability is linked to lower midlife career and job satisfaction, independent of the early experiences of socioeconomic status and gender.