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The Effect Of Family On Career Choice Of Students
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1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study is
restricted to secondary schools in Esan Central local government area of
Edo State. In the realization of similar condition facing most students
in other secondary schools in Edo State the survey shall focus on
students in their first year and final year of studies.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
FAMILY: Is a unit comprising of husband, wife and children.
FAMILY SIZE: The number of people in the family.
FAMILY SYSTEM: This includes monogamy and may be nuclear or extended family.
HOME
ENVIRONMENT: This refers to parental experience and aspirations for
children, objects and material conditions in the home for comfort and
also specific behavioral processes conducive to learning.
EDUCATIONAL
UPBRINGING: This refers to education of children and how they perform
in academics when subjected to test or examination.
EDUCATIONAL
STATUS: This term is used for social processes in which one achieve
social competence and individual growth, carried on in a selected,
controlled sitting which can be institutionalized as a school or
college.
OCCUPATIONAL STATUS: Person’s trade, vocation or principal means of earning living.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC
STATUS: This refers to position of recognition which one finds him in
the society. Such a position may not be hereditary but acquired through
personal efforts like education, wealth, occupation and social class.
ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE: This refers to the students’ achievement, scores within
the class and his position relative to all those subjected the same
test.
EFFECTS: the result or outcome of anything be it positive or negative.
HOME SITUATION: This refers to prevailing atmosphere in the home whether violent, resentful or in disarray.
PARENTAL
ATTITUDE: Parents disposition to respond in a characteristics way to
some stimulus in their social environment. Some responses determine the
way and manner their children are brought up by them.
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