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Research Paper—Education
A Study on Occupational Aspirations and
Personality Adjustment of Secondary
School Students
April, 2012 * Dr. M.S. Shashikala
* Asst. Prof. New Horizon College of Education, Indira Nagar, Bangalore
Introduction Table-1: Results of t-test between Boys and Girls of Secondary
Occupation of an individual is considered as schools with respect to Occupational Aspirations
Gender n Mean SD t-value p-value Signi.
a major source of satisfaction in adult life and it links Boys 400 46.3100 10.0569 -4.0044 <0.05 S
to real world. It is the identity of an individual when Girls 400 48.9125 8.2349
a simple query is made about any one "who is he/she" Hypothesis: There is no significant difference between
the answer flows in terms of persons occupation. There- Type of Management (Government, Aided and Un-
fore the occupation of a person is not only the means aided) of Secondary school students with respect to
of livelihood but also the way of life. In order to suc- Occupational Aspirations.
ceed in a chosen occupation a realistic and pragmatic Table-2: Results of Analysis of variance (ANOVA) test between Type
approach is highly desirable. of Management (Government,Aided and Unaided) of Secondary school
Objectives students with respect to Occupational Aspirations
SV DF SS MSS F-value P-value Signi.
* To find out the influence of occupational aspirations Between 2 1746.4533 873.2266 10.3841 <0.05 S
and personality adjustment and its dimensions of stu- managements
dents and also with other moderator variables Within 797 67021.6455 84.0924
Variables managements
Total 799 68768.0988
* Dependent Variable: Occupational aspirations The above table shows that the null hypothesis is re-
* Independent Variable : Personality Adjustment jected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. Type of
* Moderator variables Management (Government, Aided and Unaided) of
* Gender (Boys and Girls) Secondary school students have different Occupational
* Type of management (Government/ Aided /Unaided) Aspiration.
Sampling Procedure Table-3: Results of t-test between Government, Aided and Unaided
The required schools for sample of the study Secondary School Students with Respect to Occupational Aspirations
was taken using stratified random sampling technique. Managements n Mean SD t-value p-value Signi.
Out of the total sample of 800 students, 400 boys and Government 303 45.7294 9.1079 -4.0396 <0.05 S
Aided 260 48.9462 9.7706
400 girls were selected for the study. The total ratio of Government 303 45.7294 9.1079 -3.6720 <0.05 S
the Secondary schools (Government, Aided and Un- Unaided 237 48.5527 8.5481
aided) is 2:2:1. Aided 260 48.9462 9.7706 0.4757 >0.05 NS
Tools Used Unaided 237 48.5527 8.5481
* 'Occupational Aspiration Scale' (OAS) by Grewal The above table shows that:
(1973). 1. The null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hy-
* Personality Adjustment Inventory by Sinha and Singh pothesis is accepted. students of Secondary schools
(1984) belonging to Aided management have higher Occupa-
Statistical Techniques : tional Aspiration compared to Government Second-
The investigator has used differential statis- ary schools.
tical techniques for the study 2. The null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hy-
Data Analysis And Interpretation pothesis is accepted. students of Secondary schools
Hypothesis: Boys and Girls of Secondary schools do belonging to Unaided management have higher Occu-
not differ significantly with respect to their Occupa- pational Aspiration compared to Government Sec-
tional Aspirations. ondary schools.
See Table 1 Hypothesis: Students with high and low Personality
The above table shows that the null hypothesis is re- Adjustment do not differ significantly with respect to
jected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. Girls their Occupational Aspiration.
have higher Occupational Aspiration when compared See Table 4
to Boys of Secondary schools. The above table shows that the null hypoth-
esis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted.
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Table-4: Results of t-test between high and low Personality Adjust-
ment of Secondary school students respect with respect to their Occu- Hypothesis: Students with high and low social adjust-
pational Aspiration ment do not differ significantly with respect to their
Personality n Mean SD t-value p-value Signi. Occupational Aspiration.
Adjustment The above table shows that null hypothesis is rejected
Low 366 42.0437 10.1048 -18.6741 <0.05 S
High 434 52.3065 4.9446
and alternative hypothesis is accepted. It can be con-
It can be concluded that students with high Personality Table-7: Results of t-test between high and low educational adjust-
ment of Secondary students with respect to their Occupational Aspi-
Adjustment have higher Occupational Aspiration than ration
the students with low Personality Adjustment. Educational n Mean SD t-value p-value Signi.
Hypothesis: Students with high and low Emotional adjustment
Adjustment of Secondary students do not differ sig- Low 465 44.5957 9.6479 -11.7195 <0.05 S
High 335 51.7970 6.8079
nificantly with respect to Occupational Aspiration.
The above table shows that the null hypothesis is ac- cluded that students with high social adjustment have
cepted and alternative hypothesis is rejected. It can be higher Occupational Aspiration when compared to
concluded that students emotional adjustment does students with low social adjustment.
not influence the Occupational Aspirations of the stu- Hypothesis:
dents. Students with high and low educational ad-
Table-5: Results of t-test between High and Low Emotional Adjust- justment do not differ significantly with respect to their
ment of Secondary students with respect to their Occupational Aspira- Occupational Aspiration. The above table shows that
tion
Emotional n Mean SD t-value p-value Signi. the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypoth-
adjustment esis is accepted. It can be concluded that students with
Low 368 47.4891 10.4540 -0.3434 >0.05 NS high educational adjustment have higher Occupational
High 432 47.7153 8.1531 Aspiration compared to students with low educational
adjustment.
Table-6: Results of t-test between high and low Social Adjustment of
Secondary students with respect to their Occupational Aspiration
Conclusion
Social n Mean SD t-value p-value Signi. There is confusion among the students about
adjustment aspirations for future occupations. Earlier guidance is
Low 349 42.9456 10.7773 -13.9462 <0.05 S needed in Secondary schools to overcome this kind of
High 451 51.2217 5.7488
confusion. The students have the major responsibility
for getting information about the occupations.
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