Savvidou Maria
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Title: A Quantitative Research: Factors affecting career choice during the last period of Adolescence
Biography
Biography: Savvidou Maria
Abstract
The present study is mainly a pilot survey using quantitative methods that aims to examine all the factors affecting career choice during adolescence. There are different views in the relative literature. Therefore, in one respect, career choice is supposed to be a long-term procedure with often unpredictable developments that never ends. On the other hand, it is generally accepted that career choice is a developmental process that starts from early childhood and is basically expressed during adolescence when students are obligated to take a decision related with their career structure. Based on the second point of view, it was chosen that all sampled students should be at the age that is close in time to the most important decision about their working life (upper secondary school). The basic assumption that was originally made is that, in the current period the socio-economic context in Greece presents much more unfavorable working conditions than a decade ago and we expect this to turn teenagers towards different professional orientations and behaviors than we have so far observed. The findings of the investigation showed that further research is necessary, especially nowadays that socio-economic factors are changing rapidly. Research in the Greek field should be re-evaluated, as the working framework changes every year and consequently the factors influencing career choice during adolescence are formulated within another framework.