Development Through Work And Play

Development Through Work And Play

Hartung P J

Journal of Vocational Behavior

2002

2002-12

Adopting a work-play framework that attends to the adaptive, self-enhancing potential of play in work and human development contributes to an enhanced conceptualization of careers, both within career theory generally and the developmental perspective on careers specifically. Such a framework also promotes investigations of the connections between these life domains. Five proposals are made to imbue the developmental perspective on careers with a work-play fusion. These proposals examine how a work-play integration in vocational development theory, research, and counseling practice can foster optimal human development and therein aim to advance a revitalized developmental paradigm of career. Ultimately, theory construction and research inquiry that comprehends and investigates an integration of life roles in the domains of work and play could foster adaptability in human life-span development. (C) 2002 Elsevier Scicilce (USA).

benefits; career adaptability; career developrnent; leisure; life coursed; life-role salience; life-span; perspective; Psychology; Psychology; roles; Super's theory; work and play

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