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Member Breakdown by Major Field in Psychology

Fall 2004

When planning your next marketing campaign think about what the segmentation only APA mailing lists and specialized journals can provide. Below is a breakdown of the APA membership by major subspecialty in the field of psychology.

Major Field
Total
Percent of
Total
Clinical
44,339
50.3
Clinical Child
2,950
3.3
Counseling psychology
9,837
11.1
Geropsychology
308
0.3
Health
1,421
1.6
School
3,483
3.9
Cognitive
928
1.1
Community
668
0.8
Comparative
62
0.1
Developmental
2,660
3.0
Educational
1,924
2.2
Environmental
75
0.1
Experimental
1,257
1.4
General/Methods & Systems
783
0.9
Industrial/Organizational
4,015
4.6
Neurosciences
674
0.8
Personality
436
0.5
Physiological/Psychobiology
371
0.4
Psychopharmacology
200
0.2
Quantitative/Math/Psychometrics/Stats
530
0.6
Social
2,357
2.7
Others Allied to the Field
4,631
5.2
Not specified
4,326
4.9
 
Subtotal
88,235*
62.0
 
Students
53,600**
38.0
 
TOTAL
141, 835
100

* Includes members, associates, and fellows
** As of April 2003

Source: 2004 APA Directory Survey. Compiled by APA Research Office.

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