Abstract
The adolescents’ occupational aspirations is affected by various factors such as intelligence, emotional stability, growth and development, peer group interest, family background, social and economic life and the cognitive maturity to select a career according to the one’s interest and needs. Adolescents’ career maturity is influenced by the attitude and the competencies of the individual. The study focused on finding out the relation between occupational aspirations and career maturity of the senior secondary school students according to their streams of study. The results of the study indicated no significant correlation between the occupational aspirations and career maturity of the arts stream senior secondary school students and it also shows no significant correlation between the occupational aspirations and career maturity of the science stream students of senior secondary classes.
Highlights
The concept of career maturity originated from the term vocational maturity and it refers to the person’s degree of readiness to choose, prepare well and plan for the future vocation
The study focused on finding out the relation between occupational aspirations and career maturity of the senior secondary school students according to their streams of study
The results of the study indicated no significant correlation between the occupational aspirations and career maturity of the arts stream senior secondary school students and it shows no significant correlation between the occupational aspirations and career maturity of the Science stream students of senior secondary classes
Summary
The concept of career maturity originated from the term vocational maturity and it refers to the person’s degree of readiness to choose, prepare well and plan for the future vocation. Occupational aspirations are important for understanding an individuals’ self-concept, behavior related to the career and attitude, assessment of the effect of social factors on the available opportunities and the future educational aspiration and choices related to the career and their extent of attainment. Gutman and Schoon (2018) conducted a study titled “Aiming high, aiming low, not knowing where to go: Career aspirations and later outcomes of adolescents with special educational needs” to investigate the role of the early career aspirations of adolescents in predicting the educational achievement and the occupational outcomes of the adolescents. The future occupational aspirations are affected by the academic self-concept at high school stage (Guo et al 2015). The researches focusing on the occupational aspiration, and career maturity of students reveals that the career choices of the students are influenced by many factors social as well as psychological, and the academic achievement
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