The effects of parents' attitudes, levels of education, occupations and income on occupational choices of matayom suksa three students in Bangkok metropolis
Abstract:
The purpose of this study were to survey the vocational interests of secondary students and to investigate the effects of the parents attitudes, levels of education, occupations and income on the occupational choices of matayomsuksa three students in the Bangkok Metropolis according to the hypothesis that. 1. Boy and girl students are different in their vocational interests. 2. Parents1 attitudes have effects on the students occupational choices. 3. Parents' Levels of education have effects on the students occupational choices. 4. Parents1 occupations have effects on the students occupational choices. 5. Parents' income have effects on the students occupational choices. The subjects of this study included 341 male and female matayomsuksa three students between the age of 14-18 years. There were 136 boys and 205 girls selected from the following schools: Sarawitaya, Wat-Sungwej, Santiratwitayalai1 Satri-witaya, Pra- Kanongpitayalai, Nonsreewitaya, Singharajpitayakom, Bangpakokwita-yakora, Wat-Noinai and Wat-Bawornmongkol. The following instruments were used to collect data: a Bio-data-Questionnaire, The Vocational Preference Inventory by John L. Holland and a Questionnaire on Parents attitudes concerning the students occupational choices. Chi-Square, Percentage and Coefficient of Contingency were competed to analyze the data. Results\indicate that : 1. There is a significant difference between the voca¬tional interests of boys and girls. 2. Parents' attitudes have no effect on the students occupational choices. The survey of the Parents attitude concerning occupational choices show the following results: 90.8% of the parents give their children the opportunity to choose their own careers; 82.7% of the parents want their children to select a career with higher status and prestige than their own. These parents also think that their children can make their own decisions and solve their own problems; 65-1% of the parents have yet no vocational plans for their children; 59.8% of the parents think that their children were still too young to make a vocational choice. 3. Both the fathers educational level and the Parents' income have significant effects on the students occupational choices. 4. The mothers educational level as well as the parents' occupation have no effects on the students occupational choices.