title: [Self-discovery and self-realisation in occupational life].
abstract: Self-discovery as a maturation process begins early in infancy and is part of juvenile socialisation. In this early phase in life the drive of self-realisation may rise and continue to motivate the adolescent and further the grown-up in his working life. The impulse of self-realisation tends to vary along the course of life. While a successful carreer will strengthen the drive for self-realisation, lessened stimulation through continuous and dull work may result in its fading, as might inevitably be the case in the long-term unemployed. In occupational life, loss of motivation for self-realisation can induce lack of interest in accomplishment of the work task, thus diminishing the individual's productivity at the work place.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Arbeits- und Sozialmedizinische Allergiediagnostik, Bad Salzuflen.
authors.forename: Ernst
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stresemann
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D004328:Drive; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009042:Motivation; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012945:Social Values; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult