Career barriers, in vocational psychology dictionary

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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology

Career Barriers

The obstacles that an individual perceives as obstructing or delaying progress toward an aspired to occupational or career objective. Such obstacles may refer to internal, psychological characteristics or to external ones. Interest in what we today would call on career barriers or obstacles goes back several decades but became a distinct topic of inquiry in the latter half of the 1980s, when concerns regarding the career development of women and minority groups increased. Most current research on the topic in the United States continues to focus on the career development of minority groups (e.g., Lybeck-Brown, Muhammad, Leuwerke, Slaviero, Swanson, & Gore, 2001).

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