People routinely conceive of themselves in their career in both stable and dynamic ways. Individuals may draw common threads across their various career experiences and aspirations to form a stable anchor for their career identity, yet at the same time, dynamically adapt their self-concept in the context of their career. In this paper, we call attention to the anchoring and evolving forces that people experience as a paradox for their career identity and theorize career identifying as an ongoing process of career identity maintenance and change. As individuals contend with career identity tensions, they make adjustments to maintain a balance of anchoring and evolving forces on their career identity or to make shifts that accumulate into career identity change. The career identifying process accounts for both career identity maintenance and change in a single theoretical model that explains how career identity can change over time while being stable enough to make coherent career choices.

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稳定锚与动态演化：职业身份维持与变化的悖论理论

人们通常以稳定和动态的方式构想自己的职业生涯。个人可能会在他们的各种职业经历和愿望中画出共同的线索，为他们的职业身份形成一个稳定的锚，但与此同时，他们会在他们的职业背景下动态地调整他们的自我概念。在本文中，我们呼吁关注人们所经历的锚定和不断发展的力量，这是他们职业认同的悖论，并将职业认同理论化为职业认同维持和改变的持续过程。当个人应对职业身份的紧张局势时，他们会做出调整，以保持其职业身份的锚定和不断发展的力量之间的平衡，或者进行累积到职业身份变化的转变。