
Ariane FroidevauxThe University of Texas at Arlington | UTA · Department of Management
Ariane Froidevaux
PhD
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Introduction
I have developed a research program that explores three areas: (1) career transitions and adjustment, (2) aging and late-career processes, and (3) identity negotiation. For details, please visit: http://arianefroidevaux.wordpress.com/
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Publications (51)
In an aging society, dealing with the disengagement from one's work-related identity and the quality of retirement adjustment become major concerns for individuals and organizations. However, the processes through which retirement adjustment can be achieved and upon which conditions this depends are only partially understood, especially regarding i...
Given the aging trend in the labor force, it is necessary to gain a better understanding of how human resource management (HRM) practices can support the age-diverse workforce and facilitate the maintenance of both younger and older workers’ collective job performance. In this chapter, we propose an HRM perspective to examine how organizations can...
This article for the 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior theoretically integrates, reviews, and critically discusses research that investigates vocational behavior and development based on life stage, lifespan, and life course perspectives. First, we describe key tenets of these perspectives and associated theories of vocat...
Successfully adjusting to retirement represents a major challenge for many older workers. Following the temporal unfolding of retirement process (i.e., preretirement, transition, and postretirement phases), the present study draws on the resource-based dynamic model of retirement adjustment to investigate how a diverse set of preretirement personal...
This Encyclopedia entry reviews the organizational psychology and management literature focusing on the transition from work to retirement at the individual and organizational levels. After a brief history of retirement and of this retirement scholarship, the definition of retirement is presented, followed by a review of the main theoretical framew...
L’employabilité des personnes âgées de 50 ans et plus, aussi appelées travailleurs-ses séniors, représente un enjeu complexe dans les sociétés contemporaines. Ce chapitre a pour but de comprendre les perceptions croisées des entreprises et travailleurs-ses séniors quant aux défis et atouts de maintenir les séniors en emploi, aux motivations des emp...
Purpose
This study explores the differences and similarities of work value profiles in samples of business students from four countries with markedly different cultures and labor markets.
Design/methodology/approach
We used multiple-group latent profile analysis (LPA) to explore the differences and similarities in work value profiles across cultur...
Successfully adjusting to retirement, in terms of achieving psychological comfort with one's retirement life, represents a major challenge for older workers. Although current literature emphasizes that it may depend on the availability and fluctuation of specific resources, little is known about which types and how resources allow recent retirees t...
As life expectancy increases, pursuing a meaningful life becomes more crucial. Retirement, often a challenging transition marked by losing meaningful career roles, prompts individuals to reevaluate their purpose and explore various meaningful activities. The current chapter conceptualizes activities as energies resources that enable older adults to...
In the context of the ageing workforce, late‐career development implies ongoing decisions during retirement regarding one's engagement in volunteering and bridge employment activities. While prior research has emphasized the role of the meaning of work in retirement decisions, it has not examined the roles that meaning in life and identity play in...
As the aging of the population puts at risk retirement pension systems worldwide, the aim of this conceptual paper is to shift scholarly attention from workers “growing old” to “growing whole over the lifespan,” answering a provocative research question: What if spirituality allowed workers to remain in the labor market with more sustainable career...
Differing approaches by countries to managing the COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique context to explore how a shock event can prompt novel sensemaking about culture in immigrants as they compare pandemic management strategies implemented by their host country, the United States of America (U.S.), with those of their respective home countries. In t...
This paper aims to integrate the perspectives from meaning in life and aging psychology with that of palliative care, offering a framework of meaning in life at the end of life. After defining meaning in life and its antecedents, we highlight the psychological challenges of meaning in the end of life for palliative care patients and provide illustr...
Background
In recent decades, many countries have observed increasing labor force participation beyond the state pension age (SPA). However, there is a lack of research on employment beyond SPA and how it relates to older workers’ health. Moreover, there is a need to better understand how institutional factors affect the relationship between older...
Retirement anxiety represents a major challenge for older workers who hold negative expectations and concerns regarding the consequences of their future retirement. Although prior studies suggest that retirement is an age-related transition that may serve as a reminder that life is nearing its end, little is known about how subjective nearness-to-d...
While STEM occupational turnover constitutes a major concern for society given the importance of innovation and technology in today’s global economy, it also represents an opportunity to achieve career sustainability for individuals. There is ample research on the reasons why students drop out from STEM education, but evidence on STEM professionals...
This chapter examines the inclusion and excellence of African Americans in the workplace through the lens of conscience—which arises from the experience of questioning the certainties woven into human practices by considering how to begin them anew and taking action beyond its context by breaking the cycle in which the future is made dependent on t...
The research on small business owners’ (SBOs’) retirement process has been very limited in the literature. In this commentary, we first outline SBOs’ 4 specific retirement decision options, including family succession, retire from management while maintaining ownership, independent sale, and liquidation. We then examine their unique multi-level ant...
En considérant le contexte professionnel et démographique actuels, le présent chapitre s'intéresse aux différentes étapes-allant de la préparation jusqu'à l'adaptation-qui caractérisent le processus de la transition à la retraite dans les sociétés occidentales au 21 e siècle. Notre analyse portera sur les enjeux non seulement au niveau micro-(éléme...
Student loan debt represents an important phenomenon in the United States, as around 61% of bachelor’s degree recipients graduate with a debt of over $28,100. Although studies emphasize that holding student loan debt delays the transition to adulthood in terms of marriage and home ownership, little is known about its impact on employment and this l...
De quelle manière la famille peut-elle influencer le choix de devenir psychologue ? Retour sur les influences en jeu dans ce type de transmissions.
This chapter intends to contribute to a better understanding of career development over the lifespan by examining individual as well as contextual factors contributing to life-long career development. Considering manifold changes in the work environment as well as throughout the individual’s career, we review classic theories of career development...
The chapter examines negative self-evaluations as they relate to self-escape behavior, particularly alcohol misuse, which is important to industrial- organizational psychologists who aim to improve the workplace and worker productivity, health and well-being. We begin by exploring the reasons people seek to escape self, including negative self-eval...
Two important evolutions of the 21st century are the recognition of retirement as a normative third age in the lifespan and the rapid economic and social changes individuals need to adapt to. The objective of this chapter is to examine the transition from work to retirement using a life design perspective that relies on the concepts of identity, me...
In an aging society, the successful transition from work to retirement becomes a major challenge for individuals, organizations, and governments. This chapter aims to explore the relationship between retirement planning and adjustment, and the general assumption according to which planning for retirement leads to positive adjustment outcomes. To do...
In an aging society, dealing with the disengagement from one’s work-related identity and the quality of retirement adjustment become major concerns for individuals and organizations. However, the processes through which retirement adjustment can be achieved and upon which conditions this depends are only partially understood, especially regarding i...
Utiliser son identité comme un compas pour se guider dans la construction d'une nouvelle étape de vie : c'est le paradigme du « life design ». Le passage à la retraite constitue une rupture avec le monde du travail et questionne les équilibres, les rôles et les sens de la vie. Un moment de transition qu’accompagnent les spécialistes de la psycholog...
La recherche qualitative consensuelle (RQC) consiste en une démarche d’analyse qualitative encore marginale, mais de plus en plus répandue en psychologie, notamment en psychologie du conseil et de l’orientation. Sa particularité est de proposer une procédure d’analyse progressive et standardisée, visant à répertorier, à croiser et à comptabiliser l...
This short paper summarizes the author's dissertation. The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate how older workers subjectively experience the transition from employment to retirement and successfully adjust to retirement. Using a consensual qualitative research design with a sample of 16 retired individuals, and two one-year time...
Une analyse des dessins animés destinés aux jeunes montre que les images véhicutées entretiennent des représentations traditionatistes des métiers, à même d'influer sur le choix professionnel des spectateurs. Le conseil en orientation joue un rôle important pour déconstruire ces idées reçues.
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In an aging society, making a successful transition from work to retirement and achieving good quality of retirement adjustment become major concerns for individuals, organizations, and governments. This paper focuses on the particular role of mattering (i.e., individuals’ perceptions that they make a difference in the world) as a critical self-con...
Using cross-sectional data (N = 381 older workers and N = 335 retirees), this conference paper focuses on the particular role of mattering, that is, individuals' perceptions that they matter to others, as a critical self-image dimension that may mediate social resources' impact on retirement planning and retirement adjustment.
In the last decades, the vision of scholars on transition to retirement has shifted from a traditional withdrawal from work to pursing multiple pathways and opportunities at a late career stage. Consequently, retirement issues need to be taken into account when considering career development and sustainable careers. Our aim in this chapter is to pr...
Career adaptability encompasses the attitudes, behaviors, and competencies that people use “in fitting themselves into work that suits them” (Savickas, Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work, Hoboken, Wiley, p. 45, 2005). Savickas (The Career Development Quarterly, 45:247–259, 1997) proposed adaptability as a unifyin...
The aim of this study was to present the initial validation of a new questionnaire, the Transition to Retirement Questionnaire (TRQ) and to study its relationship with resistance to change and personality dimensions. Based on Schlossberg’s typology of the retired, the TRQ is designed to assess five dimensions related to personal perceptions of tran...
La retraite est aujourd’hui considérée comme une nouvelle étape du développement de carrière. Elle implique, pour les seniors, des remaniements identitaires, que les psychologues conseillers en orientation peuvent accompagner grâce à des outils qui leur sont propres.
Par Ariane Froidevaux, psychologue conseillère en orientation et doctorante à l’Un...
p>In this chapter, we will apply theoretical constructs to a case study from our consultation service. We aim to highlight, through the exploration of theory and practice, how career counselors can help clients become more adaptable and build their social, emotional, and cognitive meta-capacities through a brief career counseling intervention.</p
Avec l'allongement de l'espérance de vie, la transition à la retraite devient un enjeu majeur pour les collaborateurs plus âgés. Ils se découvrent de nombreuses années à vivre en bonne santé, auxquelles ils doivent donner sens et s'adapter. L'orientation est aussi là pour les y aider. Par Ariane Rosselet et Andreas Hirschi. Ariane Rosselet est psyc...