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vocational psychology  

Definition

  • Vocational psychology, a specialty within applied psychology, is the study of vocational behavior and its development across the life cycle. Emerging in the first decade of the twentieth century as America became heavily industrialized, vocational psychology originally concentrated on the fit between a worker's abilities and interests and a job's requirements and rewards. [Source: Encyclopedia of Career Development; Vocational Psychology]

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