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dc.contributor.authorRogiers, Philip
dc.contributor.authorVerbruggen, Marijke
dc.contributor.authorD'Huyvetter, Paulien
dc.contributor.authorAbraham, Elisabeth
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-13T13:48:02Z
dc.date.available2022-06-13T13:48:02Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.identifier.issn0001-8791
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103745
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/7051
dc.description.abstractWe all know people who want to make a change in their careers but do not act on this desire. Yet this phenomenon, recently labeled “career inaction” (Verbruggen & De Vos, 2020), has received almost no research attention to date. To address this gap and enrich our understanding of career inaction, this paper explores the lived experiences of 43 individuals characterized by inaction. Employing a qualitative research design and informed by the broader literature on psychodynamics, we find that people's experience of inaction is emotionally tense and situated among the interaction of three psychodynamic “me”-identifications: the “striving me,” the “comfortable me,” and the “uncertain me.” Our study further identifies various tension-easing strategies that help people ease the psychological strain of career inaction, even though their inaction often continued. Altogether, our study enriches and extends extant theorizing on career inaction and calls for a renewed focus on bounded rationality and emotionality in contemporary careers.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis project is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) under grants CARST G0E8318N and SB/1SE6421N and by the Internal Funds KU Leuven (Postdoctoral mandate PDMT 1/21/008)en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.subjectCareer Inactionen_US
dc.subjectCareer Decision-Makingen_US
dc.subjectCareer Indecisionen_US
dc.subjectIndividual Career Management Behaviors and Strategiesen_US
dc.subjectCareer Transitionsen_US
dc.subjectQualitative Research Methodsen_US
dc.titleStuck between me: A psychodynamic view into career inactionen_US
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Vocational Behavioren_US
dc.source.volume136
dc.source.issueAugust
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Work and Organisation Studies, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgiumen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1095-9084
vlerick.knowledgedomainHuman Resource Managementen_US
vlerick.typearticleVlerick strategic journal articleen_US
vlerick.vlerickdepartmentCFECMen_US
dc.identifier.vperid190478en_US


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