The Effect of Parental Influence on the Choice of Career Among Senior Secondary School Students
Chapter One
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The main objective of this study is the effect of parental influence of the choice of career among secondary school. But for the successful completion of the study; the researcher intends to achieve the following sub-objectives
- To find out the effect of parental influence on the choice of career among students in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State
- To find out to what extent the influence of the parent will play on the student’s choice of career, and whether the influence will always aid the students positively or negatively.
- To ascertain the level of formal education of parents influences the career choice of students
- To ascertain the significant relationship between parental influence of choice of career and academic performance of secondary school students
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
Attempts will be made in this chapter to critically examine views, opinions, and perceptions of past researcher as they ears in books, journals lectures, magazines newspapers and abstracts in doing this, those that are related to choice of career among students will be highlighted no two persons are born exactly alike each differs from the other in natural endowments, one being suited for one occupation and another for the other. All things will be produce of in superior quantify and quality and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation in accordance with his natural endowment. The oxford advanced learners dictionary of current English defines career as ”a job or profession especially one with opportunities for progress or promotion” A profession is therefore” is a dignified occupation based on intellectual training anddesirable mental exercise the purpose of which is to render service” .Henry-bell (2006) Stress that career is the totality of experience through which one learns about and prepares to engage in work as a part of his way of living. Chen (2003)objectivist believe that occupational matches can be measured and predicted mainly through scientific assessment and will logically state what type of career choice best fits that person. This type of thinking was dominated in the early 20thcentury-Frank Person the designated founder of the vocational guidance movement. Henry-Bell (2006) stress that career is the totality of experience through which one learns about and prepares to engage in work as a part of his way of living.Speete (2002) Observe ” career is an ongoing process that occurs over the life-span and includes homes school andcommunities”.Eduwen (2000) opined” it is realistic that students desire help in order to make satisfying choice of the occupation.
WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE CAREER
We must decide what manner of man we wish to be andwhat walking in life will follow and this is most difficult problem inthe world”.Oladele (2001) Observed that secondary school studentsneed right decision on choice of career as.
- Career work should enable them choose a life rather thansimply a living
- The chosen occupation will globally shape the person and hislife style
- Lead to occupational satisfaction among individual students.
- To bridge the gap of individual different.
- That our society may not be run by disgruntled, frustrated and unrealistic and unrealistic individuals.
According to Caplow (2000) Occupational choices are made at a time when the student is still remote from the world of work. They are made in terms of school requirement, which may call for quite different abilities and taste from those which will be related to eventual jobs.Krumboltz (2001) Opined that the process of occupation decision making could be analyzed in terms of three periodsfantasies tentative and realistic choice. These can bedifferentiated by the way in which the individual translates his impulse and needs into occupational choice. These can be differentiated by the way in which the individual translate his impulse, and wants into occupations choice. Baker (2009) opened the doors to the practice of matching one’s self to ones job traits.A process that continues to this day. Niles (2001) A persons work was the foundation for his unique interest, abilities and values, while each occupation has unique characteristics related to tasks, skill required a rewards. As the oldest and most widely used of the career development theories. Trait and factor theories believe that these unique characteristics of both individuals and job can be measured objectively and will produce the highest amount of satisfaction for both workers and employers when they are correctly matched together. Irch (2000) this approach is much more assessment based and pays limited attention to a client emotional or motivational state. In essence the client narrowstheir occupational search by gaining an understanding of their career aptitude and interest based on one more vocational interest inventories. Based on those results, the counselorthen assist the client in finding occupation where his/her reported skill and interest have the strongest match, thereby placing the client into an area where they have the greater likelihood for successor example, if a clients assessment demonstrates his or her highest interest and abilities with people, he or she is primarily working with data/materials or one that has limited interactionwith other workers, or clients John Holland’s subsequent work in(2006-2007) was based on shared psychological features, such asskill and personality, from his testing, Holland eventually came to the conclusion that every person or occupation can be brokendown into six categories known as RIASEC code (realistic- skilled trader/technical/occupation, investigative scientific occupation, artistic/literacy/musical occupation social educational/religious occupation. Enterprising persuasive occupation and conventional clerical business occupation.Figler and Bolies (2007), Holland and Lutz (2000) assessments based on trait and factor theory wherea person thought and behaviour were assumed to start fairlyconstant over their lifetime, continued to strengthen as more andmore test were created to match a person’s personality and skillto a specific job.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to the effect of parental influence of the choice of career among secondary school
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information on the study the effect of parental influence of the choice of career among secondary school. 200 staff of selectedsecondary schools in Egor local government of Edo State was selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain the effect of parental influence of the choice of career among secondary school.
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of parental influence of the choice of career among secondary
Summary
This study was on the effect of parental influence of the choice of career among secondary school. Four objectives were raised which included: To find out the effect of parental influence on the choice of career among students in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, to find out to what extent the influence of the parent will play on the student’s choice of career, and whether the influence will always aid the students positively or negatively, to ascertain the level of formal education of parents influences the career choice of students, To ascertain the significant relationship between parental influence of choice of career and academic performance of secondary school students . In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 staff selected secondary schools in Egor Local Government of Edo State. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made up principals,vice principals administration,senior staffand junior staffwas used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies.
Conclusion
From the findings it can be concluded that the effects of theparental influence on the child are both negative and positive.This include lack of proper counseling, unwillingness to reasonwith the child, students uncooperative stand, illiteracy etc. theresearcher has verified the various findings and come to aconclusion that if the problem mentioned above are solved thestudents will have a sustaining interest towards a better life spancareer
Recommendation
As stated earlier, the effect of the parental influence on thechoice of career are either positive or negative to the degree of the guidance and counseling attitude and ability of the parenttoward their children the effect may have psychological socio-economic and culture effect on the child.
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