Tracing super's theory of vocational development: a 40-year retrospective

In a short time span, from 1951 to 1963, six major vocational choice or vocational development theories were introduced into vocational psychology and vocational guidance (Bordin, Nachman & Segal, 1963; Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad & Herman, 1951; Holland, 1959; Roe, 1956; Super, 1953, 1957; Tiedeman, 1961; Tiedeman & O'Hara, 1963). Most of these theories flourished briefly because of research activity, but only those of Holland and Super have...