Understanding Problems of Vocational Counselling Information Seeking Behaviour in the Modern Nigeria

AGBAJE, A. A, AGBAJE, A. O
2014 IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science  
The study investigated the effects of career exploration intervention and career planning course on problems of Vocational Counselling Information -Seeking Behaviour of the Students in Uyo Metropolis. Two hundred and forty randomly selected senior secondary school class two students constituted the sample of the study. The sample consisted of 140 boys and 100 girls. Their age ranged between 15 and 18 years with a main age of 15.5 years and standard deviation of 0.66 years. Career Factor
more » ... y and Career Decision-making Self-Efficiency Scale were the two instruments employed in the study; data were analyzed using analysis of covariance and Duncan post-hoc measure. The results show that there were significant main effects of treatment on counselling informationseeking behaviour of the participants. The two treatments were also superior to the control groups on measure to counselling information-seeking behaviour of the participants and that career decision-making, self-efficiency and gender moderate the causal link between the treatments and the criterion measure. Based on the findings it was suggested that school counsellors and relevant stakeholders should making conscious effort to adopt career-planning course and career exploration intervention as tools for handling adolescents career-related concerns.
doi:10.9790/0837-19525057 fatcat:mgvvvg6apnccbf4u7ggx6vtisi