ABSTRACT
Psychologists have been responsive to pressures emanating from two major fields: industry and education. The needs of industry have brought into existence a large body of research, concerning such issues as personnel selection, the factors that influence industrial morale, the psychological characteristics that differentiate successful and unsuccessful workers at various levels, and the like. In a survey of the field of occupational psychology, one of its more authoritative spokesmen (Miller, 1974) has called attention to a marked shift in its theoretical orientation. The work of Donald Super and his collaborators at Teachers College, Columbia University, represents one of the most sustained and determined efforts to evolve a theory of career patterns. Super is a vocational psychologist, whose attention has been fixed on the individual who is still in school. Ginzberg envisages the process of occupational decision making in terms of three periods, such as, fantasy, tentative, and realistic.
