A Pilot Study On Middle School Students' Occupational Aspiration And Its Relationship With Self-supporting Consciousness

Occupational aspiration is one's ambitions to certain career, it is the joint product of assessments of compatibility and accessibility to certain occupations. Based on an open-ended questionnaire, this study analyzed all sorts of factors considered by middle school students when they think about the future careers. And on overviews of former studies, a theoretical hypothesis was put forward in this study. Thus the Middle School Students' Occupational Aspiration Questionnaire that is fit for the middle school students were designed and the reliability and validity were tested out. Then the status quo of middle school students' occupational aspirations was investigated through the formal questionnaire. In addition, this study explores the relationship between occupational aspiration and self-supporting consciousness.The main results of this study are as follows:(1)The self-made questionnaire had high reliability and fair validity. By the method of factor analysis, the research found that the middle school students' occupational aspiration was constructed by five dimensions: "wage and prestige", "social value", "interpersonal association", "leisure", "self-development". This was basically consistent with the theoretical hypothesis.(2)The order of ratings' mean of every dimension given by middle school students was: "self-development", "social value", "interpersonal association", "wage and prestige", "leisure". The middle school students rated "self-development" as the most important one.(3)The grade effect was statistically significant in every dimension. With the rise of grades, the middle school students rated "wage and prestige" and "self-development" more important, but rated "social value" and "interpersonal association" less important. The whole...