ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN İDEALLERİNDEKİ İŞE YÖNELMELERİNE ENGEL OLDUĞUNU DÜŞÜNDÜKLERİ İŞLEVSEL OLMAYAN KARİYER İNANÇLARI

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to examine the dysfunctional career beliefs of university students that they believe as barriers to achieve their ideal jobs. With this purpose, 247 (110 female, 137 male) students from various faculties and departments were given open-ended questionnaire forms and the responses were taken literally. The results of the analyses yielded that there were four main themes, namely “Individual Factors”, “External Factors”, “Family, Society, and Environmental Effects” and “Generalizations.” The results yielded that almost half of the students participated in the study has several dysfunctional beliefs about their career and these beliefs were grouped in to main themes and subthemes. The findings of the study would help counselors in designing career intervention programs especially for university students to help them during their career decision process. Most of the previous research demonstrated that many of these dysfunctional career beliefs stem from the lack of accurate information about careers. Counselors may help students change their dysfunctional career beliefs with the accurate information by exploring information about specific careers and informative job interviews with people from their preferred field of work. Further studies would use this information as a basis for the development of instruments to assess the variation of these beliefs among university students and pretest-posttest evaluation of the career guidance and counseling programs.