Article | Open Access | Published: 9 July 2019
Factors Influencing Career Choices
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Abstract:
Almost every individual is to face the challenge of the occupational choice problem at one or another time. However, students are particularly to encounter such problem while the selection of study programmes. It is widely believed, particularly by students, that selection of study programmes is the major factor, which leads the students to struggle for their desired future career. This study attempted to explore the roles of mothers, fathers, tutors, future income, future status, and societal diff erence by labelling all of such factors as ?Infl uencers? on the career choice of young students. From this perspective, cross-sectional data based on primary data collection was gathered from diff erent university students based in Karachi via a developed questionnaire and through nonprobabilistic convenience sampling. The gathered data was, subsequently, analyzed through one sample t-test and one way repeated Measure ANOVA by employing SPSS statistical package. The result of the study highlighted the relative importance of various career choice infl uences& that averages of variables of infl uence are statistically diff erent F (4.215, 699.727)= 27.405, p
Keywords:
Career Infl uences, university students, cross-sectional data.
Publisher:
ILMA UNIVERSITY
Published:
9 July 2019
Issue:
Issue 1 : Volume 15
E-ISSN:
2409-6520
P-ISSN:
2414-8393
DOI:
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