Courses offered in German only.

All courses are in German only.

All courses are in German only.

• Empirical research, and the description, explanation, evaluation and prediction of human experiences and human behavior
• The application of psychological knowledge to create psychologically healthy living and working conditions
• Applied areas such as technical and media psychology, work, organizational and economic psychology as well as health psychology

...in the theoretical conception, application and evaluation of

• Psychological technologies, such as internet-based assessment, counseling and intervention
• Psychological measures in the business and healthcare context, such as employee selection and human resource development, job design, market and consumer research, preventative healthcare and health promotion, public health

You will acquire

• The basis for a post-graduate education degree in Austria (Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology)
• The right to professionally bear the title of "Psychologist" in Austria (Psychologists Act 2013)

The JKU Master's degree program in Psychology fulfills the substantive recommendations as outlined by the German Psychological Society for a general Master's degree in Psychology with a specialized focus.

• Job analysis and design
• Planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion measures
• Employee selection & human resources development
• Implementing modern management and leadership concepts
• Designing and evaluating multimedia educational materials
• Planning and conducting usability studies
• Conducting market and opinion research
• Accompanying organizational change processes / agile corporate development
• ...and much more

• As a company psychologist, you analyze and design jobs that give employees higher job satisfaction, keep them healthy, and able to work more efficiently. These measures will help to reduce work accidents, burnout, sick leave, and high employee turnover.
• As a psychologist at a market research institute, you help to analyze consumer needs and behaviors. This helps you better predict future trends and provide sound product and pricing recommendations.
• As a psychologist in healthcare, you focus on the implementation and acceptance of new technologies such as healthcare robots, electronic health records, or workplace fitness trackers.

The Master's degree program Psychology at the Johannes Kepler University is a general psychology degree program with a specialized focus of application. This means you have a sound general education in psychological methods and theories, but with an emphasis on applying psychological insights in technological and economic fields.

Many degree programs in Economic or Business Psychology have been designed to complement a non-psychology undergraduate degree program such as Business Administration or Economics. These programs usually focus on economics and/or interdisciplinary education with insights into the field of psychology.

In contrast, the Master's degree program at the JKU is an "academic degree program in Psychology" in a strict sense. In accordance with the Austrian Psychologists Act, program graduates are "psychologists" and during the program, students acquire the necessary educational basis for post-graduate studies in health or clinical psychology. They are therefore free to choose a profession from the full range of psychological careers. Graduates can pursue professions directly in business or technical fields or at the interface between these areas and "conventional" areas, such as health psychology or psychological assessment.

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