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Wester, Stephen R. – Counseling Psychologist, 2008
O'Neil (2008) defines male gender role conflict (GRC) as a psychological state in which the socialized male gender role has negative consequences for the person or others. Building on this, many now realize that the mechanisms through which these negative consequences occur, rather than being global, are instead contextual. That is, different men…
Descriptors: Role Conflict, Sex Role, Counseling Psychology, Gender Issues
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Savickas, Mark L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1991
To help clients increase career success and life satisfaction, counselors can elicit and examine clients' concepts about work and love. If client's personal meanings conflict with social meaning of work and love, counselors can link client beliefs to client's career concerns, provoking cognitive dissonance that motivates client to modify beliefs.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Career Counseling, Client Attitudes (Human Services), Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Jarvis, Peter – 1992
This book explores how learning is the lifetime quest to understand personal identity, purpose, and meaning while conforming and adapting to the perceived and real confines of a paradoxical society. It examines the complex social experience of learning, revealing how culture, gender, race, and other societal factors shape and mold an individual's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education