Theory of work adjustment, in vocational psychology dictionary

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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology

Theory of Work Adjustment

A person-environment fit theory of career development that conceptualizes positive and negative vocational outcomes as the result of two major factors--satisfactoriness and satisfaction--themselves arising from degree of fit between a worker's needs and values and sources in the job for matching these (leading to satisfaction) and a worker's skills and skill requirements of the job (leading to satisfactoriness). The theory is process-oriented, with an ongoing interplay assumed between efforts of individuals and work environments to maximize their respective satisfaction and satisfactoriness. There are a number of additional constructs important to the theory. See Dawis (1996).

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