Exam 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood.

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In the corporate world, female professionals tend to leave their jobs for one of two major reasons. Which of the following is one of them?

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If Melissa and Gilbert are a typical married couple when it comes to the division of household labor,

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Approximately ____ percent of all women over the age of 16 in the United States of America are working.​

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Although people can use different coping strategies to deal with occupational uncertainty, research has found that ____-focused coping can actually lead to higher levels of job-related stress.

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Around _______________ of mothers with children under the age of six work for pay.​

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In January of ____, unemployment rates in the United States of America reached 10.6%.

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A strong inclination toward an activity that individuals like (or even love), that they value and find important, and in which they invest time or energy is called ____.

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Of women caring for parents or parents-in-law, more than 80% of them provide an average of 23 hours of care each week.​

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____ is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that results from job stress.​

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The _______________ Act of 1993 entitles workers to take unpaid time off of their jobs in order to care for a dependent with the right to return to their job.​

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Which of the following is the MOST accurate statement regarding the quality of one's mentor?

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At a local university, there is an opening for the Dean of Students. Of the four final applicants for the job, three are men and one is a woman. After the interviews are conducted, the selection committee (who happens to be made up entirely of men) discusses each applicant. One committee member comments that he "wouldn't want to see an overly emotional person" in charge of their students. This could indicate that ____ is taking place.

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Darvin has been doing a good job at work when his boss, begins flirting with him. Darvin is not interested in these advances, and politely informs his boss as such. Instead of cutting out the flirtation, his boss implies Darvin may be transferred to a lower ranking position if he does not agree to a date. Darvin is experiencing _______________ harassment.

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Vallerand (2008) proposes a model that distinguishes between two different kinds of passion: ____ and ____.​

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Sarah has been struggling against a glass ceiling at work. Which of the following job-level transitions is she probably having the most difficulty overcoming?

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Cheung, Kam, & Ngan (2011) found that age discrimination toward people over the age of ____ is frequently seen in Hong Kong.

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Reality shock often occurs when college graduates find that the information they acquired in college overprepared them for their first real job.​

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When a job is awarded or denied to a person solely on the basis of whether they are a man or a woman, gender ____ has occurred.​

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The more simple form of the social cognitive career theory (SCCT) is to the more complex form, as ____ factors is to ____ factors.

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Which of the following countries has consistently had the lowest participation rate of women in its workforce?​

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