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Factors Influencing the Career Choice of Senior Secondary School Students in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State , Nigeria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Fareo, Dorcas Oluremi Garkuwa, Javan |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | The study determined the extent religion influence choice of career among secondary school students; examined the extent gender parity would influence on career choice of students; and investigated the extent parental influence would affect choice of career among senior secondary school students in Hong Local government. Survey research design was adopted. The population of the study comprised of 24 senior secondary schools and 7,338 students. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample out four schools. Stratified sampling technique was employed to draw 400 students using gender and class as strata. The research instrument named “Factors Influencing the Career Choice of Senior Secondary School Students’ Questionnaire” adopted from Salami and Salami (2013) was used to use to collect data. The validity of the research instrument was carried out by two experts both in Counselling Psychology and Test and Measurement. Test-retest method was used to carry out the reliability of the instrument, and the reliability co-efficient was 0.81. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean percentage and t-test analysis. The study findings were that parent socio-economic status, education and family career preferences influence students’ career choice. Also, there was a significant difference between male and female students parental influence on choice of career. Based on the findings, the study concluded that career choices of students were greatly influenced by parents’ occupation, attitude and family career preferences. It was recommended that professional career counsellors should include the students in selecting process, considering interest, ability, skills and personality of the students. Career choice process should include experimentation, trails and error, decision marking and eventual judgment. Therefore, students must be made aware of the processes. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijcab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IJCASS.2018.007.36.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
