Abstract
This study focused on analysis of Donald Super’s Theory of Career Choice among young adults in Ghanaian Secondary Schools. This study indicates that, decisions made at tender age may relate to nothing but fantasy because they are likely to learn more on needs and wants of self rather than reality factor and also the inability of young adults to choose a good career for their lives is lack of career information and inconsistency of information, several researches viewed Donald Super's career theory as the foremost career researcher of his time. Concept of vocational choice theory, self-concept theory, career indecision and coping strategies, five life stages, life career rainbow, life roles and span, life space were discussed, implications for and consequently a critique of the theory which among other things were, more theory segments that should be evaluated empirically, particularly in life span of teenagers. Key words: Young adults, career choice, career indecision, career development.
Highlights
Career development is a life-long journey that starts at mid adolescence and ends at retirement (Bozgeyikli et al, 2009)
10) The rainbow's life-span dimension depicts and demarcates life stages, which correspond to childhood, adolescence, maturity, middlessence, and senescence
Super's Professional Development Theory is a cornerstone in the field of career development; it does not cover all
Summary
Career development is a life-long journey that starts at mid adolescence and ends at retirement (Bozgeyikli et al, 2009). There are many factors that affect the career development process all over the world. These factors are classified along psychosocial, social, emotional and physical factors (Bozgeyikli et al, 2009). These factors mutually interlink, affect each other and either enhance or limit occupational status of a person. People develop sense of career aspiration through integration and interplay of life-roles and events that happen in the entire journey of life (Gysbers et al, 2003). Aside the views of these authors on career development all over the world including Ghana, factors that affect the career development process are many interlinked personality factors such as gender, interest, abilities, values, self-concept, intelligence, ethnicity and sexual orientation of the individual, and young adults in Ghanaian Secondary Schools are not an exception.
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