Stable Anchors and Dynamic Evolution: A Paradox Theory of Career Identity Maintenance and Change
研究人们如何在职业中同时维持稳定的身份锚点并动态适应变化，提出职业身份识别是维持与变化的持续过程，对职业发展研究者和从业者理解身份动态有参考价值。
People routinely conceive of themselves in their career in both stable and dynamic ways. Individuals may draw common threads across their various career experiences and aspirations to form a stable anchor for their career identity, yet, at the same time, dynamically adapt their self-concept in the context of their career. In this paper, we call attention to the anchoring and evolving forces that people experience as a paradox for their career identity and theorize “career identifying” as an ongoing process of career identity maintenance and change. As individuals contend with career identity tensions, they make adjustments to maintain a balance of anchoring and evolving forces on their career identity or to make shifts that accumulate into career identity change. The career identifying process accounts for both career identity maintenance and change in a single theoretical model that explains how career identity can change over time while being stable enough to make coherent career choices.