Emotion: An Absent Presence in Career Theory

Decision Making in Voluntary Career Change: An Other‐Than‐Rational Perspective

“…The interactive model limits its consideration of psychological processes to framing a decision, and, in common with most perspectives on career decision making to date, affect and emotion are not addressed as central (Kidd, 1998). Although rational approaches to decision making have acknowledged that unconscious processes including emotion and intuition can be influential (e.g.…”

“…Although rational approaches to decision making have acknowledged that unconscious processes including emotion and intuition can be influential (e.g. Gati & Asher, 2001;Peterson et al, 1996), such influences are positioned as distorting the ideal, systematic process (Kidd, 1998;Kahneman et al, 1982). Kidd's (1998) argument for career decision making as a joint operation of emotional and cognitive processes is supported by recent developments in the wider psychological literature.…”

“…Gati & Asher, 2001;Peterson et al, 1996), such influences are positioned as distorting the ideal, systematic process (Kidd, 1998;Kahneman et al, 1982). Kidd's (1998) argument for career decision making as a joint operation of emotional and cognitive processes is supported by recent developments in the wider psychological literature. Johnson-Laird and Oatley (2004) posited emotional processes as essential co-processes of cognition, facilitating complex decision making by reflecting partially unconscious evaluation processes.…”

Narrative career counselling: Theory and exemplars of practice

“…Despite emotion playing a key role in the narrative and conversations in which career is the content (Young, Valach, & Collin, 2002), the theoretical body of orthodox career development has been criticised for its lack of inclusion of emotion (Kidd, 1998(Kidd, , 2004Meijers, 2003). Constructivist approaches to career and identity hold emotion as an intrinsic and explicit part of the process of narrative self-construction of career identity (Meijers, 1998(Meijers, , 2003Young, Valach, & Collin, 2002).…”

The Ties that Double Bind Us: Career, Emotion and Narrative Coping in Difficult Working Relationships

“…The study of emotion at work has grown apace in recent years, but as Kidd (1998) notes, emotion continues to be "an absent presence" in research on careers. This article forms part of a larger programme of research examining the role of emotion in career, which draws upon the sensemaking paradigm (Weick, 1995) to conceptualises the impact of emotion on career (and vice versa) as occurring through narrativethrough the stories we tell ourselves and others to make sense of the emotional ebb and flow of our working lives.…”