Personal Characteristics and Occupational Preferences of Secondary School Leavers in Kano
Personal Characteristics and Occupational Preferences of Secondary School Leavers in Kano
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1979-04
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Udo, Isaac Anwana
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Abstract
This study was aimed at investigating the relationship
between personal characteristics (Interest, Sex, Personality and
Intelligence) and the occupational preferences of secondary sen
leavers in Kano, and knowing how their expressed occup tional
interests relate to tested occupational preferences. One hundred
and forty Form Five students (eighty boys and sixty girls) drawn
randomly from six secondary schools in Kano, formed the total
sample for the study.
The Rothwell-Miller Interest Blank (RMBI), the Eysenck
Personality Inventory (EPI) and the Raven Standard Progressive
Matrices (RPM) were used to me sure trie subjects1 occupational
ests, interest of introversion and extroversion and the 1evels
non-verbal intelligence respectively. A short questionnaire
was also used to find out the subjects'' expressed occupation
irences.
In order to see the relationship between the subjects'
expressed and tested occupational preferences, the Rothwell-Miller
Interest Blank and the short questionnaire were administered.No
signficant relationships were found in their expressed and tested .
occupationa1 preferences.
1t wa s f ound that sex differences existed in some of the
occupational preferences of the subjects.
Eysenck and Cookson (1969) claimed that Introverts aspire
toward scientific occupations and extroverts towards linguistic
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achievements. To put the claim to test, the subjects on
the basis of their scores on the Esyenck Personality Inventory
(RPI) were classified into less extroverts and more extroverts.
The more extraverts occupational preferencies as shown by the
Rothwell-Miller Interest Blank (RMBI) were compared with those
of the less extroverts and no significant differences were
found between the two groups.
Also, no significant differences in non-verbal intelligence
were found between the subjects who selected scientific and
those who selected persuasive occupations.
The study has further revealed the subjects' rather low
occupational awareness and e lack of realistic touch with
the world of work. The need to re-examine and reshape the
existing secondary school curriculum in this respect and
also the crucial role school counsellors could play to enhance
a meaningful occupationa1 development of secondary school
students,have been stressed.
Description
Submitted to the Faculty of Education,
Bayero University, Kano.
In Partial Fulfilment of the
Requirements for the Award- of
Master of Education Degree of
Ahmadu Bello University.
Bayero University, Kano.
APRIL 1979
Keywords
Personal Characteristics,, Occupational Preferences,, Secondary School Leavers,, Kano.