Jérôme RossierUniversity of Lausanne | UNIL · Institut de Psychologie (IP)
Jérôme Rossier
PhD
Full professor of career counseling
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Introduction
Jérôme Rossier studied psychology at the University of Lausanne and at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and is currently full professor of vocational and career counseling psychology at the Institute of Psychology (IP) of the University of Lausanne. He is the editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance and member of several editorial boards of scientific journals such as the Journal of Vocational Behavior or the Journal of Research in Personality. His teaching areas and research interests include counseling, personality, psychological assessment, and cross-cultural psychology. He published a great number of articles and book chapters and recently co-edited the Handbook of life design: From practice to theory and from theory to practice.
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This study aimed to analyze how career adaptability and job control can influence apprentices’ perceptions of their work as being decent and stressful. The participants included 530 Swiss apprentices enrolled in a three-year vocational education training (VET) program. Structural equation modeling showed a positive association between career adapta...
Psychology of Working theorists recommend supplementing the Decent Work Scale (DWS) with subjective investigations of decent work across different cultural contexts. Building on this, the present study developed and validated the Decent Work Triad (DWT) for assessing the subjective aspects of decent work in a sub-Saharan African context. Using a Bu...
This article examined the validity of the French translations of the long (EPCD-53) and short (EPCD-25) versions of the Emotional and Personality-related Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire. Results of the confirmatory factor analyses conducted on a Swiss sample of 322 students support the structural validity of the EPCD-25. AltHough...
The present study investigates the role of promotion in employees’ happiness (job satisfaction), health (work stress), and career-related performance (perceived employability and career prospects). Positive and negative changes in the above-mentioned career sustainability indicators were investigated over a 2-year period. The promotion subsample (n...
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...
The study aims to disentangle the effects of human development and gender egalitarianism on the differences between men and women in personality traits across various countries. It examined this phenomenon in four countries with differing levels of human development and gender egalitarianism: Burkina Faso (low human development/low gender egalitari...
The current manuscript presents the convergence of the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP-BQ), using its short form the DAPP-90, and the Five-Factor Personality Inventory for International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), the FFiCD, in the context of the five-factor personality model and the categorical approach of personalit...
De nombreuses activités professionnelles ont des effets dramatiques sur les écosystèmes et contribuent au dépassement des limites planétaires. En parallèle, le modèle économique actuel repose sur l’idée d’une croissance quantitative perpétuelle, qui augmente continuellement les dégradations environnementales. L’AIOSP exhorte la psychologie de l’ori...
Orientation: Most stress models emphasise the impact of adverse work conditions on psychological strain. Despite considerable support for these additive models, the role of personal characteristics moderating the stress–strain sequence is under-researched. Research purpose: The study investigated the indirect and curvilinear effects of personal res...
Based on the social cognitive model and on the psychology of working theory, this research aims to study the job and life satisfaction of apprentices, considering proactive personality, person-supervisor and person-group fit, occupational self-efficacy, and decent work as antecedents. The participants were 530 Swiss apprentices enrolled in a three-...
De nombreuses activités professionnelles ont des effets dramatiques sur les écosystèmes et contribuent au dépassement des limites planétaires. En parallèle, le modèle économique actuel repose sur l’idée d’une croissance quantitative perpétuelle, qui augmente continuellement les dégradations environnementales. L’AIOSP exhorte la psychologie de l’ori...
Drawing on the Psychology of Working Theory, the aim of this study is to assess the relationship between decent work, work needs’ satisfaction and entrepreneurial intentions in Burkina Faso, Switzerland, and Togo. We also test the applicability of the model of entrepreneurial intentions in these countries. Using a sample of 1,829 individuals we con...
L’insertion professionnelle et l’accès à un travail décent et digne dépendent de différents facteurs contextuels, économiques (associés notamment à la situation du marché du travail) et psychologiques. Ces facteurs ne peuvent pas être considérés de manière indépendante, mais sont à comprendre comme étant en constante interaction. Les individus doiv...
The type of nonwork orientation and decent work perception are supposed to be important factors that influence well-being at work. In this study, 196 Swiss apprentices enrolled in a vocational education training were assessed twice during the first 24 months of their apprenticeship. The results showed that there are specific links between nonwork o...
Career counselors face a variety of expectations from the government, society, and counselees and encounter for this reason regular dilemmas in their professional activities. It is important that they take these dilemmas into account to offer counselees interventions adapted to their needs and to their social context. In the field of care and psych...
To describe vulnerabilities and resources in career development, it is important to consider a life-span and life-long perspective, the different layers of a person’s self, and the interaction between the person and the surrounding environment. To this end, macro- (i.e., public policies, labor market transformations), meso- (i.e., family structure,...
Inspired by Psychology of Working Theory (PWT), our aim in this study was to investigate vocational guidance and career counselling specialists’ perceptions of decent work and of the resources that promote access to decent work by using qualitative methods analyses. With this objective, 17 Swiss professionals were interviewed. First, content analys...
L’évolution de l’organisation du travail couplée à celle des technologies rend d’autant plus complexes l’orientation, la formation et l’insertion professionnelles des jeunes (15 à 25 ans) en situation de handicap visuel, en plus des limitations fonctionnelles dues au handicap. Dans un contexte où l’accent est mis sur la flexibilité alors que le han...
Assessing the causes of career indecision is among the first steps in career counseling. Gati et al. (1996) proposed a multidimensional taxonomy of career indecision and developed the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ), consisting of 10 scales that cohere into three higher-order clusters and a total score. However, studies inv...
Objectives
The present paper tests the cross-national stability of the HEXACO-60 structure across 18 countries from four continents. Gender and age differences across countries will be examined. Finally, this is the first study to explicitly analyze the relationships between the HEXACO and social position.
Method
10,298 subjects (5,410 women and 4...
This research explores the Dark Triad traits in 18 cultures from Europe, America, Africa, and Asia. We examined the relationships among Dark Triad traits, as measured by the SD3, with gender, age, social status, and two personality models, HEXACO and Zuckerman's alternative five factor model (AFFM). There were 10,298 participants (5,410 women and 4...
Over the last three decades, the professional landscape has changed, and career paths
have become more plural, complex, and flexible, as well as less predictable. Consequently, career sustainability has become a major concern. Since the framework of sustainable careers captures the complexities of modern careers, we used it in the present study to...
Although daily hassles have been of interest since the 1980s, only a few tools have been developed to assess them. Most of them are checklists or open-ended questions that are demanding for participants in panel surveys. Therefore, to facilitate daily hassles integration into large surveys, the aim of this study was to present a new tool assessing...
Vocational and career guidance and counselling interventions have usually focused on supporting individuals to develop life projects that give meaning to their work and life. However, the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) of today’s world makes it difficult to support coherent and sustainable life courses on an individual lev...
Vocational guidance and counselling have usually focussed on supporting individuals to develop life projects that give meaning to their work and life. However, the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of today’s world makes it difficult to support sustainable life courses on an individual level. There is a need to address social justic...
The validity of cross-cultural comparisons of test scores requires that scores have the same meaning across cultures, which is usually tested by checking the invariance of the measurement model across groups. In the last decade, a large number of studies were conducted to verify the equivalence across cultures of the dimensional Alternative Model o...
Attending to clients' psychological needs during career counseling merits more attention in career theory and practice. We describe how the elaboration of clients' needs during career construction counseling supports clients' problem formulation. After reviewing the literature on the psychology of needs, we present and illustrate an intervention st...
In Sub-Saharan Africa where the occupational integration of graduates remains a major challenge, entrepreneurship seems to represent an inescapable alternative to unemployment. Knowledge about variables impacting the entrepreneurial intents of university students and job seekers would help in designing targeted actions to promote entrepreneurship a...
The aim of this study was to validate the French version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and to assess its measurement invariance across gender, age groups, countries, and student versus career counseling samples. We also examined the sensitivity of this instrument to discriminate a career counseling population from...
Les métiers à faible niveau de qualification sont progressivement délocalisés hors de Suisse. Parallèlement, l’évolution technologique induit une élévation des niveaux de qualification et la demande en emplois qualifiés augmente. Ceci conduit à une pénurie de main d’œuvre qualifiée et à une dépendance accrue à la main d’œuvre étrangère. Ainsi, dans...
Decent work is crucial for an individual’s life development and well-being. The psychology of working theory defines the relationship between micro and macro factors that might be strongly influenced by the context. The aim of this research was to study how people working in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso describe their working con...
Les inventaires de personnalité sont fréquemment utilisés dans le cadre d’une diversité d’interventions psychologiques et ils sont disponibles dans de nombreuses langues. Cependant, une grande prudence est préconisée lorsque l’on cherche à interpréter le profil d’une personne évaluée dans une langue qui n’est pas sa langue maternelle ou qui vit dan...
Les modèles dominants en psychologie de l’orientation conçoivent le développement des personnes principalement sous leur aspect individuel. Cette vision individuelle de l’orientation est fondamentalement liée aux premières conceptions théoriques de l'orientation et aux transformations sociétales dans lesquelles les individus sont perçus comme respo...
Adaptability is usually conceived as a psychological capacity that sustains adaptive behaviors, allowing one to face, and manage stressors. It promotes adjustment between a person and its environment through a constant, dynamic, and dialectic interaction between them. Adaptability is conceptually and empirically distinct from dispositions such as p...
Adaptability is usually conceived as a psychological capacity that sustains adaptive behaviors, allowing one to face, and manage stressors. It promotes adjustment between a person and its environment through a constant, dynamic, and dialectic interaction between them. Adaptability is conceptually and empirically distinct from dispositions such as p...
With the recent evolution of the labor market, emerging adults with no diploma are particularly exposed to unsatisfying jobs and barriers to access decent work. The aim of the research was to identify their representations of work, based on the psychology of emerging adulthood and the psychology of working theory. Differences related to each countr...
La migration fait désormais partie des enjeux globaux et l’intégration des migrant·e·s est un enjeu majeur pour les pouvoirs publics et ces populations. En Suisse, une catégorie de ces migrant·e·s rencontre plus de difficultés d’intégration, liées en grande partie à leur statut : les demandeur·euse·s d’asile admis·es provisoirement. Parmi ces diffi...
The current research examined the link between both normal and malevolent personality, proactive attitude, and self-perceived employability across some highly investigated (Belgium, Switzerland) and under-investigated populations of sub-Saharan Africa (e.g., Togo), considering proactive attitude as a potential mediator and self-perceived employabil...
During the past 70 years, diverse vocational theories have focused on various important topics such as career choice processes or person–organization fit and adaptation to describe people’s career development. More recently, narrative approaches have been proposed by several authors inspired by dialogical self theory or the life story model of iden...
and Keywords During the past 70 years, diverse vocational theories have focused on various important topics such as career choice processes or person-organization fit and adaptation to de scribe people's career development. More recently, narrative approaches have been pro posed by several authors inspired by dialogical self theory or the life stor...
This study examined the validity of Psychology of Working Theory (PWT) in a context of sub-Saharan Africa. A sample of 334 Togolese primary school teachers completed the French versions of the Decent Work Scale (DWS), the Togolese adapted form of the Satisfaction With Life Scale, the Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS), and several items about meaning at...
This meta-analysis examined the association between two types of difficulties in career decision making-indecision and indecisiveness-and four types of self-evaluations: generalized self-efficacy, process-related self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Analyses were conducted on data from 86 studies (N = 54,160): Process-rela...
The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire shortened form (ZKA-PQ/SF) in 18 cultures and 13 languages of different African, American, Asian, and European cultures and languages. The results showed that the five-factor structure with 20 facets replicated well across cultur...
Person–environment fit (P–E fit) and job satisfaction are key constructs in vocational and organizational research. Research established that they are positively related, but little is known about how they relate over time. We analyzed P–E fit as the congruence between the Big Five personality traits of a worker and of all job incumbents in the sam...
Drawing on the concept of spillover between work and life domains and using a person‐centred approach, the present study examined the role of Big Five personality trait profiles in moderating the relationship between work‐related well‐being and life satisfaction over a 1‐year period in a sample of working adults in Switzerland (N = 1204). Latent pr...
Many individuals face difficulties when making a career decision. Gati, Krausz, and Osipow (1996) proposed a taxonomy that classifies career decision-making difficulties into three major clusters, which are further subdivided into 10 categories. Based on the proposed taxonomy, they developed the Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CD...
The fourth industrial revolution has transformed the world of work and the interactions between individuals and their social, political, and economic environment. This revolution exacerbated older problems and generated new ones. Over-stimulation at work, stress and burnout, and under-stimulation, boredom or loss of meaning due to increased abstrac...
Career landscapes have changed over the recent decades with a de-standardization of career paths. Globalization, more flexible labor markets, and new ways of working are just a few of the many factors that erode the boundaries of a well-defined career path. Today, many workers are thus confronted by the vulnerability paradox, where diverse career o...
Self-esteem, general self-efficacy, and career adaptability, which include career concern, control, curiosity, and confidence, are important resources for adolescents who are required to make important educational and professional choices. No studies have investigated how these resources codevelop over time and their impact on life satisfaction. To...
This article illustrates instrumental variable (IV) estimation by examining an unexpected finding of the research on career adaptability and job satisfaction. Theoretical and empirical arguments suggest that in the general population, people’s abilities to adapt their careers are beneficial to their job satisfaction. However, a recent meta-analysis...
ABSTRACT
The present study aims to investigate the pattern of cross-lagged relationships between job insecurity and self-rated health over a period of five years. While health complaints are usually seen as one of the detrimental outcomes of job insecurity, the question of the direction of the job insecurity-health relationship has not yet been fu...
Work values, career orientations, and career anchors are conceptually and empirically linked, and the aim of this article was to develop a new questionnaire that assesses their underlying common dimensions from a set of newly generated items. A first study, using a sample of Swiss French–speaking employees (N = 239) and exploratory factor analysis...
The aim of our study was to examine the typical personality profiles of the Alternative Five Factor Model with its new factor-facet version questionnaire (Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire, 2010) on a large, cross-country database. The total sample of this study included 15,529 participants from 23 sub-samples from 22 countries and...
This study examined the relationship between two personal resources, career adaptability and general self-efficacy, and two career outcomes, self-perceived employability and entrepreneurial intentions in a West African context, characterized by a developing economy. A Togolese sample of 334 university students and 216 job seekers completed French v...
The purpose of this study was to adapt the Decent Work Scale (DWS; Duffy et al., 2017) and extend the research on the Psychology of Working Theory (PWT; Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016) within the Swiss context. The results indicated that the Swiss French, German, and Italian versions of the DWS are valid measurements. We then tested PWT pre...
De plus en plus complexes, exigeants et incertains, les parcours professionnels contemporains posent des défis inédits à la psychologie du conseil et de l’orientation. D’une part, l’accompagnement d’orientation se doit d’adopter une perspective temporelle étendue et s’atteler aux nombreuses transitions qui s’étalent de la première entrée dans le mo...
This chapter reviews evidence about Agreeableness and antagonism and their association with mental health across cultures. Agreeableness is a personality dimension defined in a Western context, but which corresponds to a reasonable degree with indigenous dimensions found in other cultural settings. Studies translating Western measures into other la...
Trait emotional intelligence (TEI) is emerging as a useful and promising individual difference in predictingvocational behavior (e.g., Di Fabio & Saklofske, 2014). Little is yet known about the underlying processes thatmay lead TEI to associate with career related outcomes. This study investigates the role of career adaptability inmediating the ass...
This chapter intends to propose an overarching perspective, based on a value-centered, life design-based conception of decent work, that could serve as a general framework for practitioners in their effort to elaborate and implement specific intervention methods and strategies. Highlighting the necessity to help our clients reach a decent occupatio...
The present study investigates the role of career adaptability in employee well-being within a period of two years. In addition, it aims to shed light on the boundary conditions that potentially determine the use of adaptability resources and thereby may moderate the relationship between career adaptability and work and life outcomes. The study was...
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The present study compares the mean levels and growth in job insecurity across employees’ precariousness profiles as defined by a combination of perceived employability and financial difficulties. Drawing on the labor market precariousness and workplace stress literature, we hypothesized that employees with the most precarious profile would report...
Trait emotional intelligence (TEI) is emerging as a useful and promising individual difference in predicting vocational behavior (e.g., Di Fabio & Saklofske, 2014). Little is yet known about the underlying processes that may lead TEI to associate with career related outcomes. This study investigates the role of career adapt- ability in mediating th...
This article reports on the relationship between perceived organizational support, proactive personality and perceived employability in a sample of workers over 50. An online questionnaire assessing the variables mentioned above were filled by 213 employees. Our results confirmed that individual dispositions have a significant impact on perceived e...
The Personal Globe Inventory (PGI) and the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) have been adapted to be used in various languages and cultural contexts. However, French versions of these instruments have never been used in Africa and only very few studies have formally studied their cross-cultural replicability. Moreover, no stu...
This study conducted a representative analysis of the Swiss labor market from 1991 to 2014 by applying Holland’s (1997) classification of occupations according to six vocational interest types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional (RIASEC). Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we found that, over this...
This study investigated the moderating effects of culture-driven individual differences in the relationship between work conditions and work-related health outcomes in Switzerland and South Africa: Swiss natives (n = 397) and Swiss foreigners (n = 224), White South Africans (n = 432) and non-White South Africans (n = 434). We used the horizontal an...
In this research, we validated the French-language version of the Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes Scales and then investigated relationships among protean and boundaryless career orientations, proactive personality, career adaptability, and career satisfaction. Study 1 results demonstrated acceptable psychometric proprieties for the scale...
The classical nosographical approach to personality disorders leads to a set of categories that may be considered to be both conceptually and empirically problematic. In this regard, the DSM-5 includes an alternative dimensional model for which the Personality Inventory Disorders (PID-5) has been developed. Our study compares this alternative dimen...
In a changing world, there is a need to reflect about the research basis of career guidance and counselling (CGC) as a professional practice, considering the contributions of various disciplines and research traditions. This paper outlines a possible European research agenda (ERA) to further enhance the knowledge foundation of the CGC practice. The...
Résumé
Les jeunes inactifs (ni en emploi ni en formation) sont à risque de précarisation sociale durable et de mauvaise santé. L’impact des facteurs contextuels et des problèmes de santé psychiques est connu dans les difficultés d’insertion socio-professionnelle, mais celui des traits de personnalité est moins clair. Une étude comparant des jeunes...
We analyzed the psychometric properties of the Structured Interview for the Five-Factor Model (SIFFM) in a French-speaking Swiss sample and compared the French version to the original English version. A community-based sample of 260 participants (183 women and 77 men, aged 20 to 88 years, Mage = 46.23, SDage = 16.37) were assessed using the SIFFM a...
In industrialized societies, individuals are facing major challenges that mobilize many of their psychological and social resources. The world of work is changing constantly. Adults have to adapt their technical skills and knowledge continuously. For teenagers and young adults, choosing a vocation and constructing their future career paths is becom...
p>In industrialized societies, individuals are facing major challenges that mobilize many of their psychological and social resources. The world of work is changing constantly. Adults have to adapt their technical skills and knowledge continuously. For teenagers and young adults, choosing a vocation and constructing their future career paths is bec...