This chapter begins by considering the self-constructing processes with which people make themselves into who they are in terms of cognitive schemas and performing strategies. It relates the actor's behavior, the agent's strivings, and the author's explanations to a discourse that delineates career construction counseling (CCC). The career construction theory (CCT) of self-making and career building highlights the mental processes that individuals use to produce and make sense of their vocational patterns and pathways. In CCT, the three self-constructing processes of organizing, regulating, and conceiving—and the cognitive schemas and performance strategies that they produce—each align primarily with one of the three perspectives in McAdams overarching framework of psychological selves. With the strengthening of an internal sense of agency during middle childhood, a function of the psychological self begins to shape a motivational schema and adaptability strategy.
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