The professional and social prestige: determinant of the vocational assessment
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https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.25.num.2.2014.13519Keywords:
vocational orientation, vocational assessment, professional and social prestige, vocational guidance, vocational behaviorAbstract
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The development of career maturity is a key issue in the lives of people. The decisions made by young people in this area have important personal, social and economic implications. Variable professional prestige has been considered to be traditionally one more between others of the explanatory variables of the vocational decision. The present study tries to demonstrate, that at present, variable professional prestige is more than an explanatory or determining variable, is a determinant of the vocational decision. This will allow the counsellors and educational psychologists of the Elementary and Secondary centers to base their guidance not only on the interests, skills and personality, more traditional variables considered in career guidance counselling to students, but bear in mind also in the advices the professional prestige that every student grants to the different professions. There has been selected a sample of 246 subjects selected from different degrees of the University of Almeria. As a measuring instrument were used professional prestige scales: PRESCA 1 and 2. In conclusion, the most important, is that students from each of the qualifications considered to yours like more social prestige, other conclusions are: that the most prestigious degrees are technical, experimental careers and field related health, which are valued to a lesser extent the degrees related to education, there are significant differences in perceiving the prestige of qualifications depending on sex.
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