Predicting Adolescents’ Career Aspirations Based on Their Self-Efficacy and Socioeconomic Status

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Maryam Sheibani Tezerji ¹ , Nima Khademi ^{2 *} , Kamal Mohammadzadeh ³

1 - Master's Student in Educational Psychology, Shiraz University, Fars, Iran
2 - Master's Student in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Fars, Iran
3 - Ph.D. in Curriculum Planning, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Fars, Iran

Received: 2025-04-07 Accepted : 2025-07-09 Published : 2025-08-27

Keywords: Career aspirations, Socioeconomic status, Adolescents, Self-efficacy, Lower secondary education.,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to predict adolescents' career aspirations based on their self-efficacy and socioeconomic status. The statistical population of this research, conducted during the 2021–2022 academic year, consisted of female ninth-grade students from three schools in District 2 of Kerman. From this population, 127 individuals were selected through simple random sampling. The measurement tools included the Children and Adolescents' Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (Morris, 2001) with 23 items and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.89, the Socioeconomic Status Questionnaire (Ghodratnama et al., 2013) with 11 items and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.83, and the Career Aspirations Questionnaire (Danziger et al., 2008) with 25 items and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.93. The research method was descriptive and correlational. The results of this study indicated that self-efficacy and socioeconomic status, with beta coefficients of 0.856 and 0.903 respectively, could positively and significantly predict adolescents' career aspirations. Furthermore, adolescents' self-efficacy was able to positively and significantly predict their socioeconomic status as well.

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