The role of chance events in career decision making

By J. Bright, Robert Pryor, Lucy Harpham. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Applying Chaos Theory to Careers: Attraction and attractors (2007, background): “Bright & Pryor, 2005a; Bright et al., 2005; Mitchell et al., 1999). However, rather than just arbitrarily inserting chance into an influence taxonomy as Patton and McMahon (1999) appear to do, the question arises: how can a coherent account of both determinism and indeterminism be provided? Chaos th”
The Role of Chance Events in the School-to-Work Transition: The Influence of Demographic, Personality and Career Development Variables. (2010, background): “Bright, Pryor, and Harpham (2005) confirmed that university students and adults with more external locus of control beliefs reported more chance events affecting their career choices.”
Tales of the unexpected: Integrating career shocks in the contemporary careers literature (2018, unknown): “Past research has already shown that many people experience shocks and that they impact their long-term career outcomes (Bright et al., 2005; Scott & Hatalla, 1990; Williams et al., 1998), yet specific knowledge on whether and how the frequency of occurrence might impact career outcomes is less…”
Career attitudes and success of managers: the impact of chance event, protean, and traditional careers (2012, background): “Lastly, we added a new construct, the phenomenon of chance events’ impact on the relationships connected to career success (Bright et al. 2005; Bright, Pryor, Wing Man Chen and Rijanto 2009).”
#Trending topics in careers: a review and future research agenda (2017, background): “Indeed, some recent studies have called for more research on major chance events that impact individuals’ careers (e.g. Bright et al., 2005; Holtom et al., 2005), and a few empirical studies have followed suit (e.g. Hirschi and Valero, 2017; Seibert et al., 2013).”
Chance events in career development: Influence, control and multiplicity (2009, methodology): “…aim of the study was to examine the relation between locus of control orientation and influence of multiple chance events, as a follow-up to Bright et al. (2005) who reported a significant positive correlation was reported between locus of control orientation and the perceived influence of…”