-
Investigating Psycho-sociological Factors In Predicting Career Decision Among Some Selected Secondary Schools
CHAPTER ONE -- [Total Page(s) 5]
Page 5 of 5
-
-
-
Professionals,
especially school counselors will benefit from adequately counsel
students, especially those in senior secondary schools of the risks that
are there in choosing wrong career in life. Also, stakeholders in the
aforementioned areas will benefit from this study as the findings shall
complement the existing body of knowledge in this area.
1.6 Operational Definition of Terms
The following terms are often used in the study and therefore shall be operationally defined for better understanding.
Decision
Making: This refers to the process of selecting or identifying best
option out of many preferences. In other words, decision making entails
the process of choosing the best practice out of so many various and
available options.
Career: This refers to the professions that are
known by various disciplines. Career refers to series of job that a
person has in particular area of work, usually involving more
responsibility as time passes. In another way round, career can be
explained as a chosen area of interest in which an individual finds
pleasure doing for uplifting and transforming the economics of self and
the nation.
Motivation: this refers to what initiates and sustains a
student’s involvement in the act of learning. To a large extent, it
determines the direction and efficiency of learning of students.
Attitude:
it refers to the way one behaves towards someone or something,
especially when showing how one feels. Attitude can also be referred to
as an imbued trait that can only be perceived when put on display.
Personality
Trait: personality trait is the biological, genetic makeup of someone,
and it is the quality that makes someone interesting, friendly, and
enjoyable to be with. It refers to the aspects that determine one’s area
of interest.
Self-efficacy: it is a multidimensional construct that
varies according to domains of demands and which can be evaluated at a
level of a specific to the outcome domain.
Parental Influence: this
refers to the home environment provided by parents that can ignite or
increase the interest of students towards learning or choosing a
particular area of human endeavor.
Culture: it refers to the
cumulative disposition of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meaning hierarchies, religions, notions of time, roles,
spatial relations concepts and the universe; and material objects and
possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations
through individual and group striving.
School Environment: this
refers to the physical and instructions available in a learning
environment. This includes the type of available personnel, nature, and
mode of instruction, classroom management and classroom structures.
Investigation:
this refers to an official examination of facts about a situation,
crime or concept. This also refers to the scientific or academic
examination of the facts of subject or a period. As used in this study,
it refers to the process of examining and testing to know the truth
about concepts.
CHAPTER ONE -- [Total Page(s) 5]
Page 5 of 5
-
