Professor Peter Creed began professional life as a practitioner working with adolescents and adults who were displaced, confused about their life direction, or struggling with their careers. These interests carried over to research in the areas of career development, career progress, and career achievement. We spent five minutes with Peter to learn a little more….
In what area/s does your research interests lie?
My recent research interests have focused on the application of goal setting/ self-regulation theories …to understand how individuals set and adjust their career and life goals and manage the consequences of goal disruption, such as how they deal with negative affect[s] and implement behaviour change to reduce stress and improve performance.
[My] studies with young adults (including…[those] with special needs, e.g., youth in-care, hard-of hearing adolescents) have focused on career development and disruption and career transition, [and specifically], career distress, self-perceived employability, career calling, career-related feedback, goal importance, goal disengagement,
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