A Study of Occupational Aspiration Level of Higher Secondary School students of Aizawl District in relation to Parental Education and Gender.

Abstract

This study tested the occupational aspiration levels of higher secondary school students. Occupational aspiration uttered career related choice, preference of ideal jobs or career goals. Home environment and parental guidance and monitoring plays a significant role in the children education and career ambition. The present study tries to find out the impact of parents education on the higher secondary school children aspiration levels, and the possible influence of variation in their locality and gender on occupational aspiration. The study was conducted to 340 higher secondary school students of 145 male and 195 female. For the investigation the researcher administered standardized tool of occupational aspiration prepared by Dr. J. S.Gerwal. The study reveals that most of the respondents (71.17%) have average occupational aspiration, and there is evidence that parental education has positive influence on the youth career preference. The study also exhibits the variations in the locality of the respondents; students from urban area have slightly higher occupational aspiration as compared to their counterparts with students from rural area. However, the study concluded that there is no significance difference on the basis of the respondent‟s gender.