Making impact through vocational behavior research: Engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a central global framework for addressing interconnected development challenges. The article explores vocational psychology as a central analytic framework for understanding sustainable development by illustrating how the field may provide a deeper grasp and give visibility to the individual-level factors that influence SDG attainment. Inspired by papers published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the article proposes topics, research questions, theories, and methods that might prove particularly relevant to inform the SDGs, encouraging vocational psychology scholars to expand on the field's valuable yet underutilized perspective for examining the dynamics of global issues.