A path model to examine factors influencing career orientations of school-going adolescents in Nigeria

International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-94

  Salami, Samuel O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Career aspirations; Career orientation; Family involvement; Self efficacy; Sex role stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043083337     PISSN: 01650653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ADCO.0000021551.61838.0a     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Adeyemo, D. A. (1999). Career awareness training and self-efficacy intervention technique in enhancing the career interest of female adolescents in the male dominated occupations. Nigerian Journal of Applied Psychology, 5(1), 74-92.
2. Bandura, A. (1982). Regulation of cognitive process through perceived self-efficacy. Developmental Psychology, 25, 729-735.
3. Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: W.H. Freeman.
4. Bryant, L. T., & Doran, R. L. (1977). A path-analysis model of secondary school physics enrolment. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 14(13), 177-189.
5. Famojuro, E. D. (1986). A study of the relationship between career preferences and sex-role identities of university students. Nigerian Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 203-215.
6. Farmer, H., Rotella, S., Anderson, C., & Wardrop, J. (1998). Gender differences in science, maths and technology career: Prestige level and Holland Interest type. Journal Vocational Behaviour, 53, 71-91.
7. Hackett, G., & Betz, N. (1981). A self-efficacy approach to the career development of women. Journal Vocational Behaviour, 18, 326-339.
8. Ipaye, J. B. (1977). The Influence of socio-economic status on pupils' acquiring of vicarious reinforcement. Lagos Education Review - A Journal of Studies in Education, 1(1), 9-15.
9. Kerlinger, F. N., & Pedhazur, E. J. (1973). Multiple regression in behavioural research. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
10. Lent, R. W., Brown, S. D., & Hackett, G. (1994). Toward a unified social cognitive theory of career and academic interest, choice and performance. Journal Vocational Behaviour, 45, 79-122.
11. Leong, F. T. L. (1993). The career counselling process with racial-ethnic minorities: The case of Asian Americans. The Career Development Quarterly, 39, 221-230.
12. Naidoo, A. V., Bowman, S. L., & Gerstein, L. H. (1998). Demographics, causality, work salience, and the career maturity of African-American students: A causal model. Journal Vocational Behaviour, 43, 15-27.
13. Nevill, D. D., & Super, D. E. (1986). The Salience Inventory: Theory, application and research. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
14. Nevill, D. D., & Super, D. E. (1988). Career maturity and commitment to work in university students. Journal Vocational Behaviour, 32, 139-151.
15. O'Brien., & Fassinger, R. E. (1993). A causal model of career orientation and career choice of adolescent women. Journal of Counselling Psychology, 40, 456-469.
16. Pulkkinen, L., Ohranen, M., & Tolvanen, A. (1999). Personality antecedents of career orientation and stability among women compared to men. Journal Vocational Behaviour, 54, 37-58.
17. Rainey, I. M., & Borders, L. D. (1997). Influential factors in career orientation and career aspiration of early adolescent girls. Journal of Counselling Psychology, 44(2), 160-172.
18. Salami, S. O. (1997). Birth order, gender, family type and vocational preferences of IJMBE A' Level Science Students. Journal of Science Teaching and Learning, 3(1&2), 32-42.
19. Salami, S. O. (1998). Relationship between psychopathology and vocational interests among school-going adolescents in Nigeria. Paper presented at the staff seminar Department of Guidance and Counselling, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
20. Salami, S. O. (1999a). Relationship between work values and vocational interests among high school students in Ibadan, Nigeria. African Journal of Educational Research, 5(2), 65-74.
21. Salami, S. O. (1999b). Demographics, locus of control and self-concept as determinants of career maturity among Nigerian adolescents. Nigerian Journal of Applied Psychology, 5(1), 150-161.
22. Salami, S. O. (1999c). Self-concept as a correlate of motivation for occupational preference among Nigerian adolescents: A reassessment. Nigerian Journal of Applied Psychology, 5(2), 206-215.
23. Salami, S. O. (2000a). Relationship between work-role salience and career maturity among high school students in Nigeria. Ife Journal of Behavioural Research (IJOBRE), 2(1&2), 98-107.
24. Salami, S. O. (2000b). An investigation of achievement motivation, fear of failure, locus control, and neuroticism as predictors of vocational preference realism among Nigerian adolescents. Nigerian Journal of Clinical and Counselling Psychology, 6(1), 26-38.
25. Salami, S. O. (2001a). Sex-role Stereotyping Inventory. Ibadan, Nigeria: University of Ibadan, Department of Guidance and Counselling.
26. Salami, S. O. (2001b). Influence of gender and sex-role stereotyping on career decision making self-efficacy of secondary school students. Ibadan Journal of Educational Studies, 1(1), 128-139.
27. Salami, S. O. (2001c). The influence of age, class level and sex-role stereotypes on career choice of adolescents in Nigerian Secondary Schools. African Journal of Educational Planning and Policy Issues (AJEPPS), 2(1), 71-82.
28. Salami, S. O., & Olayemi, M. O. (2001). Personal-social and family environment correlates of attitude toward schooling among adolescents in some secondary schools in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Social Work Education, 5, 11-21.
29. Super, D. E. (1990). A life-space approach to career development. In D. Brown & L. Brooks (Eds.), Career choice and development: Applying contemporary theories (2nd ed., pp. 197-261). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
30. Tang, M., Fouad, N. A., & Smith, P. L. (1999). Asian Americans' career choices: A path model to examine factors influencing their career choices. Journal Vocational Behaviour, 54, 142-157.
31. Uba, A., & Olaniyi, G. B. (1991). Relative effects of gender and family type on the vocational preference of school-going adolescents in Oyo State. Nigerian Journal of Counselling and Development, 5, 95-101.
32. Uwe, E. A. (1990). Gender differences and career aspiration. The Counsellor, 14(2), 216-220.
33. Uwe, E.A. (1999). Gender orientation and occupational competence of workers. The Counsellor, 17(1), 43-50.
34. Watson, M. B., & Allan, M. M. (1989). Work-role salience: Comparison of students in career-directed and general degree courses. Psychological Reports, 64, 699-704.
35. Watson, M. B., & Stead, G. B. (1990). Work-role salience of South African adolescents. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 36, 249-257.