| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 心理輔導學系 === 104 === This study was designed to investigate the career transition and work style of freelance psychologists. Invitation has been extended to three professionals who has previously served as fulltime psychologists and are now participating in this study, in their capacity as freelance psychologists. The methods of research used is the qualitative research orientation, where data is collected by semistructured indepth interviews and by using narrative analysis induction and integration to improve the freelance psychologists’ career transitions and find out the difficulties and obstacles encountered in their practice due to their respective work styles.
1.Factor Analysis of Career Transition
Discussion on the career transition part is divided into three stages: becoming a psychologist, the career transitioning process and becoming a freelance psychologist. The four main factors for becoming a freelance psychologist include the following: family influence, familiarity with the work of helping others, interest in career of helping people and influence of university courses. Among these four main factors, the interest in career of helping peopleis the common denominator for all three respondents. In the course of their career transition, the three determined to be a freelance psychologist, during their internships, four components that influenced this determination were as follow : they did not like administrative work, freelance psychologists have time and freedom of work, freelance psychologists have higher professional degree and they have adventureloving characters. Among these, the dislike of administrative work is the common trait of all three professionals. All the other factors are only common to two of them at a time.
2.The factor analysis of work style
The factor analysis of work style includes the nature of the work, the field of work and the work content discussion. The nature of the work of freelance psychologists includes the following elements: be prepared at any time, diversity of job contents, unstable life, unstable income, high degree of work pressure, fewer job opportunities and quick adaptation to changing conditions. In the section of nature of work, these three persons do not have any common factor. However the diversity of job contents, unstable income and high degree of work pressure were common factors for two of the respondents. In relation to the field of work, the work venues include the following: the campus, the community area, the hospital, the enterprise, the prison and the funeral industry. Factors for work contents include the following eight components: individual counseling, group counseling, lectures, study courses, government cases, media, community operations and professional supervision. There are two other items that are not classified: cyber counseling and entering the mainland market.
3.The factor analysis for difficulties and obstacles
The factor analysis of the difficulties and obstacles of freelance psychologists include the following eight components: personal brand management, ego integrity , how to face the source of pressure, lack of contacts, work unit culture, unstable income, the need to find one’s own suitable work mode, and minimum involvement in public affairs. In this section, no respondent had a common factor. Only two of the persons had personal brand management, self-integration and work unit culture as common denominating factors.
And finally, recommendations were made, according to the research results and discussion regarding future studies by graduate students and fulltime freelance psychologists.
Keywords: freelance psychologists, career transition, work style
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