• Note about power point slides.

• Used as visual aid, way to reduce note taking and aid for studying for exams. Provide information not completed covered. Use chalk board to identify stuff I think you should write down.

Early Roots of Vocational Guidance

• Hershensen (2008)– “In the 1870’s and thereafter, hundreds, if not

thousands, of Americans received vocational guidance from phrenologists…Providing vocational guidance was a principal activity of phrenologists (Sokal, 2001); and even as recently as the pre-World War II Depression, a vocational guidance center staffed by phrenologists functioned in Minneapolis” (p.186)

• Sizer (1874)– “The phrenologist is all the better for

understanding something of every trade and vocation by which men get a living. Then if persons be brought to him who are seeking to know what vocations they are best adapted to, he will be able to direct each man to the right place.” (p. 201)

How do work experiences relate to psychological and physical

well-being?

To what extent do work experiences have an impact on

well-being (WB)?

Case closed?

• Suggests that genetic influence on general levels of WB.

• Do the results indicate whether general levels of WB remain stable or change in response to experience?

• Do the findings indicate whether certain experiences can have greater impact than others? Or whether certain individuals respond differently to experiences?

• Is MPQ Well-being scale measuring a state or trait?

• Does not address possibility that general levels can change in response to experience.

• Does not address the possibility that certain experiences can have more severe and lasting impact than others.

From the perspective of applied psychology, why is this question important?

• Prospective Longitudinal Design.

Jobless Rate Hits 7.2%, a 16-Year High By LOUIS UCHITELLE, New York Times Published: January 9, 2009

The nation lost 524,000 jobs in December, reflecting a pervasive fear among employers that if they fail to shed workers quickly their companies may go under in a recession poised to become the worst since the 1930s.

• Meta-Analysis. Advantages.

• Effect Size.

• Cohen’s Criteria.

• Three types of studies examined.– Cross-sectional– Longitudinal change from employment to

unemployment– Longitudinal change unemployment to employment

• What is Job Strain?

• What is CVD?

Findings.

• Age as proxy variable.

Physiological Mechanisms of Impact.

• Social Support as proxy variable.

Summary

• Evidence suggests:– Negative work experiences have substantial and

lasting impact on psychological and physical health.– Impact of unemployment varies across domains of

well-being.– Impact depends on variables such as work centrality,

financial resources.– Neg experiences at work contribute to negative health

outcome (e.g., increased risk of CVD).

Moving on.

• Negative experiences negative outcome.

• Other questions:– Positive experiences positive outcome

– E.g., P-E fit career satisfaction