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| Author: | Gibson, D.E. |
| Title: | Developing the professional self-concept: Role model construals in early, middle, and late career stages |
| Journal: | Organization Science
2003 : SEP/OCT, VOL. 14:5, p. 591-610 |
| Index terms: | Psychology Individual behaviour Careers |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | While previous literature tends to focus on role models as significant other people, this study finds that individuals tend to construe their role models as a selection process of attributes from others throughout their career. This study discovered that individuals primarily construe their role models along positive/negative, global/specific, close/distant, and hierarchically superiour/peer-subordinate dimensions, and that across the career span, the tendency to observe role models did not change. Rather, the emphasis placed on different dimensions of role models changes. The study suggests that these observed patterns are related to individuals' increasing confidence in their professional self-concept. |
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