Lithuanian gymnasium students’ career and professional self-determination
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Lamanauskas, Vincentas
Augienė, Dalia
Abstract / Description
Career education is a very important part of general/comprehensive education. One of the main components of this process is proper students’ preparation for professional choice (professional self-determination). Thus, it is important to know objective and subjective factors determining young persons’ professional self-determination. Such awareness is important and necessary for the school, which accepts responsibility for the formation of students’ professional purposefulness and professional self-determination maturity. Lithuanian gymnasium students have to make an early decision concerning future professional activity. At the beginning of 2018, a complex research was carried out, comprising qualitative and quantitative approaches. Formulating research aim is to analyse Lithuanian gymnasium students’ professional self-determination context. A total of 643 Lithuanian gymnasium 11-12 grade students took part in the research. Apart from the main research instrument (questionnaire) in the research, the researchers presented four open-ended questions. Qualitative data were processed using a quantitative content analysis. Research results revealed that the majority of female and male students thought that to properly choose a career was important, because this was a self-realisation warranty. Regardless of this, choosing a future career, both male and female students most frequently experience personal difficulties. Choosing a future career, one needs information support, different person support and self-awareness help. It has been stated that choosing a career external factors have a greater influence on both female and male students than internal ones. Choosing a career, personality character features have a bigger influence on female students, and a desire to improve, to realise oneself has a greater impact on male students.
Keyword(s)
career education career choice gymnasium students qualitative analysis professional self-determinationPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2018-10-31
Journal title
Psychological Thought
Volume
11
Issue
2
Page numbers
148–173
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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publishedVersion
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peerReviewed
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Lamanauskas, V., & Augienė, D. (2018). Lithuanian gymnasium students’ career and professional self-determination. Psychological Thought, 11(2), 148–173. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v11i2.308
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Lamanauskas, Vincentas
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Augienė, Dalia
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Date of first publication2018-10-31
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Abstract / DescriptionCareer education is a very important part of general/comprehensive education. One of the main components of this process is proper students’ preparation for professional choice (professional self-determination). Thus, it is important to know objective and subjective factors determining young persons’ professional self-determination. Such awareness is important and necessary for the school, which accepts responsibility for the formation of students’ professional purposefulness and professional self-determination maturity. Lithuanian gymnasium students have to make an early decision concerning future professional activity. At the beginning of 2018, a complex research was carried out, comprising qualitative and quantitative approaches. Formulating research aim is to analyse Lithuanian gymnasium students’ professional self-determination context. A total of 643 Lithuanian gymnasium 11-12 grade students took part in the research. Apart from the main research instrument (questionnaire) in the research, the researchers presented four open-ended questions. Qualitative data were processed using a quantitative content analysis. Research results revealed that the majority of female and male students thought that to properly choose a career was important, because this was a self-realisation warranty. Regardless of this, choosing a future career, both male and female students most frequently experience personal difficulties. Choosing a future career, one needs information support, different person support and self-awareness help. It has been stated that choosing a career external factors have a greater influence on both female and male students than internal ones. Choosing a career, personality character features have a bigger influence on female students, and a desire to improve, to realise oneself has a greater impact on male students.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationLamanauskas, V., & Augienė, D. (2018). Lithuanian gymnasium students’ career and professional self-determination. Psychological Thought, 11(2), 148–173. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v11i2.308en_US
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ISSN2193-7281
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1524
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1890
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v11i2.308
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Keyword(s)career educationen_US
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Keyword(s)career choiceen_US
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Keyword(s)gymnasium studentsen_US
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Keyword(s)qualitative analysisen_US
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Keyword(s)professional self-determinationen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleLithuanian gymnasium students’ career and professional self-determinationen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titlePsychological Thought
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Page numbers148–173
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Volume11
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