The Investigation of Senior High School Students’ Perception of Work Value and Occupational Selection Factors

• Main Authors: Yun-Chin Tseng, 曾韻琴
• Other Authors: Zuway-R, Hong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74123657227325391013

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 教育研究所 === 98 === The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship of senior high school students’ perception of work value and occupational selection. A cluster sampling is conducted to collect 528 8th graders from 7 senior high school students in Kaohsiung city . The valid response rate is 92.47%. In addition, 4 of students from 4 different schools are individually interviewed by this investigator in order to determine whether their paper and pencile responses are consistent with their actual perceptions. Finally, the hypotheses are tested through SPSS 15.0 statistical analyses. The results of the t-test, ANOVA, and regression reveal 11 major following findings: 1. There is non-significant gender difference on the scores of “work value” and “occupational selection”；whereas girls’，scores on “occupation environment & promotion” and “work ensure” are significantly higher than those boy counterparts’. 2. There is non-significant difference on the scores of “work value” and “occupational selection”, while students，who having different birth born order. 3. There is significant difference on the score of “work of reputation and status”, while studentsto obtain education degree levels. 4. There is significant difference on the score of “occupation environment & promotion” and “work ensure”, while their fathers having different educational degree. 5. There is non-significance on the score of “work value”and “occupational selection”, while their mothers having different educational degree. 6. There is significant difference on the scores of “work of independently & recreation” and “work ensure”, while students’ studying in different style schools. 7. There is significant difference on the score of “work value” , whereas there is non-significant difference on the score of “occupational selection”. 8. There is non-significant on the scores of “work value” and “occupational selection”, while students having different academic achievement; whereas there is significant difference on the score of “work reputation and status”. 9. There is non-significant difference on the scores of “work value” and “occupational selection”, while students with different task experiences. 10. The variables of students’birth born order and self expectation to obtain education level and the score of “work value” are together explained 35.2％ of the variance of students’，internal personality factor. 11.The variables of students’ background, school style, birth born order, self expectation to obtain education level, and work value are together explained 24.3％ of the variance of students’ external environmental factor.