Készen állsz? – pályaválasztási kérdések az erdélyi egyetemisták körében
Are You Ready? - Career Choice Questions among Transylvanian Students

Summary/Abstract: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a recurring question since childhood in a young person’s life. It is not surprising, because the chosen occupation, among others, determines the social and economic situation and well-being of individuals, furthermore a well-chosen profession and productive work also have a positive effect on society. Hence, the chosen career path is a very important and determinative decision with a lot of responsibility and onus to choose. The successful coping with the situation depends on different external and internal factors and their relation. In this study, we analyse factors such as motivations in higher education, the feeling of readiness to decide, and information sources used in decision making. We also studied how these factors relate to each other and to the student’s social background, more specifically to the parents’ financial status and their highest educational. For the study, we use answers from a large-sample survey of university students’ vision of the future, conducted in December of 2020. However, the questions in career choice topics were only for first year students, so the sample in our study contain 194 cases. The questions mostly referred to their high school period, but the participants were already university students at the moment of data collection.

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