What is the employment direction and prospect of psychology major?

There are many small partners interested in psychology, so what is the employment direction of psychology? The following is the employment direction and prospect of psychology major, which I compiled for you, for reference only. Welcome to read it.

Employment direction of psychology major 1. Psychological counselor.

The salary of psychological counseling in developed areas is still very optimistic, but the requirements for psychological counselors are also very high; But in underdeveloped areas, engaging in psychological counseling may not be able to maintain a certain standard of living.

Be a teacher at school

In recent years, schools have paid more and more attention to students' mental health problems, and schools have set up psychology courses. Colleges and universities also have psychological counseling centers to provide employment opportunities for graduates with master's degrees in psychology. Teachers of mental health education in primary and secondary schools, students' psychological counselors (student work, class teachers) and educational researchers also need a large number of psychology graduates.

Enter the enterprise

For graduates with psychological background, the demand of enterprises is still great. From the training of sales staff, psychological analysis of customer consumption and humanized analysis of product design, to the evaluation of talents related to human resources, vocational evaluation, psychological quality training of employees, stress release training of groups suffering from psychological pressure, etc. It needs professionals who have studied psychology to complete it. In recent years, in some high-pressure industries (such as news, broadcasting, insurance, sales, banking, etc. ), more and more enterprises began to provide psychological assistance and consultation to employees. This also provides more employment opportunities and jobs for students majoring in psychology.

4. Civil servants

Government agencies that recruit psychology majors are generally in the public security system, such as public security bureaus, labor camps, prisons, drug rehabilitation centers, etc. A psychology professor I know applied for a part-time job in the public security system.

In the public security system, students majoring in psychology are still scarce and well paid.

5. Postgraduate entrance examination

The last better way out is continuing academic education.

Employment prospect of psychology major

With the improvement of social and economic life and the rapid development of science and technology, medicine has changed from the traditional biomedical model to the biopsychosocial medical model. Medical psychology and psychological counseling have become an important part of modern medicine, and they have been paid more and more attention and demand by society.

In order to provide on-the-job personnel with opportunities to study postgraduate courses, China Academy of Sciences, China Renmin University, Beijing Normal University and other major universities have set up on-the-job postgraduate courses in psychology, aiming at developing post-university continuing education and cultivating high-level professionals.

Not only all normal universities and some comprehensive universities have set up various psychology courses, but also some key normal universities and some key comprehensive universities have set up psychology departments to train undergraduates, master students and doctoral students. Various psychology training courses have spread from schools to society, from classroom teaching to TV teaching.

Expanding reading: an analysis of six major disciplines of psychology i. general psychology

General psychology is the basic discipline of the whole psychology, and its importance can be seen through the examination syllabus. General psychology has been designed as various branches of psychology, which is the premise of understanding the whole psychology. A solid grasp of general psychology is of great help to developmental psychology, educational psychology and other disciplines.

The focus of general psychology includes three parts: The first part is about human information processing including feeling, perception, memory, thinking, language, consciousness and attention. The second part is behavior regulation, including motivation and emotion. The third part is the psychological characteristics of people, including ability and personality. The first part is complicated, including many scattered knowledge points and scattered theories, but each chapter has a unified model, namely: 1, concept, classification and function. 2. The corresponding theory. Among them, perception, memory and thinking are hot topics over the years, especially the chapter of memory (taking Beijing Normal University as an example). Wan suggested that the majority of candidates should review the second part and the third part together, because the focus of these four chapters is nothing more than the theoretical theory of each chapter, and only when the theoretical theory is thoroughly understood will they do these chapters. These four chapters are best listed as an outline to review, including about 8 motivation theories, 6 emotion theories, 7 ability theories and 2 personality theories. In recent years, ability and emotion are particularly important, and the question has been repeated for several years.

Second, developmental psychology.

The review of this course must not be viewed in isolation, because people themselves are a process of continuous development, and each stage of development has both connections and differences. Candidates should not only connect these stages, but also see the age characteristics of each stage, of which the latter is generally the focus of examination, so it is recommended that candidates connect them in a line when reviewing.

Of course, every point (stage) on the line has its own characteristics, which can be summarized as 1, the development of action, learning and activity, the development of cognition (feeling, perception, memory, thinking and language), and the development of emotional personality and sociality. Then subdivide each stage, and the best way to review is to list the characteristics of each stage in a table and compare them. Through the analysis of real questions over the years, Wan believes that children's language, children's game attachment and teenagers' social activities are the key points in developmental psychology. In recent years, the problem of mental deterioration in later adulthood, that is, the importance of Cognitive aging has become increasingly prominent, which deserves candidates' attention.

Third, educational psychology.

Judging from this year's unified examination syllabus, the difficulty of educational psychology is much smaller than before, and most of the contents behind it have been deleted. Feng Zhongliang's textbook is enough to cope with the exam, while Chen Qi's compilation is more profound and more difficult. Educational psychology, like developmental psychology, doesn't have too many points. For the review of educational psychology, candidates can be divided into three parts: 1, basic concepts of educational psychology, learning theory, learning motivation and learning transfer.

Wan Xuehai listed all parts of educational psychology as an outline, mainly including the corresponding 1, theoretical school, point 2, and the enlightenment to teaching. Because it is educational psychology, candidates must pay attention to the enlightenment to today's education and teaching when reviewing, especially in recent years, constructivism theory has become a research hotspot.

Fourth, experimental psychology.

First, introduce some reference books of experimental psychology to candidates. The first one is Yang Zhiliang's Experimental Psychology, which is the most detailed and comprehensive of all experimental psychology, and is recommended for beginners. The second book is Zhu Ying's Experimental Psychology, which is very well written. It seems to be as thorough as it was written abroad. The third book is Meng Lao's Experimental Psychology, which is the most difficult one in all psychology. Very obscure, contains a lot of psychological mathematics calculation, a little psychological mathematics flavor. It is recommended that novices use it with caution. Of course, it is still very useful for further study. The fourth is Kantwitz's Experimental Psychology, which should be the highest among these books in terms of level. The important thing is that there are a lot of vivid and interesting examples in it, which are helpful for understanding, but it is not suitable for candidates to take the exam now, because you will be at a loss when taking the exam. The fifth book is Zhang Xuemin's Outline of Experimental Psychology, which mainly absorbs the essence of the above books. The most distinctive feature is that there are a large number of psychological experiments, which are very suitable for interdisciplinary candidates and can improve their feelings about psychological experiments.

Then, Wan divides the general content of experimental psychology into the following parts: experimental variables (independent variables, dependent variables, controlled variables), experimental design, reaction time, signal detection theory, traditional psychophysical methods and so on. I hope that candidates must thoroughly understand the principle when reviewing.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) statistical psychology

This year's statistical psychology syllabus has not changed much. You can refer to Zhang Houcan's psychology and education statistics. It is best to have a clear idea in your mind so that you can find the right direction when answering questions. Generally, it is divided into descriptive statistics (concentration, variance and correlation coefficient), and the calculation of inferred data includes hypothesis test, chi-square test, multiple regression analysis, sampling survey and variance analysis. Wan suggested that candidates should pay attention to the review of theoretical knowledge and know why they should use this statistical method. If you are a psychology candidate in Peking University, you'd better refer to Teacher Gan Yiqun's Psychology and Behavioral Statistics, because he wrote all the statistical questions in Peking University over the years.

Psychometrics of intransitive verbs

Some colleges and universities did not take psychometrics before, but should read it after the unified examination, because psychometrics is closely related to real life, so it is enough to read Dai Ben of Jinan University as a reference book. However, if you are interested in measuring scale tools, you can look at Psychometrics written by Beijing Normal University. The main purpose of that book is to teach fish. Metrology includes basic concepts, reliability and validity analysis, norm reference test and standard reference test, and the making process of the test. Finally, candidates should remember 2-3 representative scales.