Journal of Counseling Research

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khorasani N, abedi M, sadeghi A. Preschool children’s’ career needs Assessment. QJCR 2016; 15 (59) :97-118
URL: http://irancounseling.ir/journal/article-1-46-en.html

The purpose of this study was to explore the needs of preschool children’s’ career in year of 2014-15 in Isfahan city. The design was exploratory-descriptive. In this study 377 preschool children’s’ parents selected by using multistage cluster sampling. Data was collected by preschool children’s’ career needs questionnaire with 91 items(khorasani, 2015). The questionnaire reliability coefficient was 0/96 based on Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and the content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed. The analysis of data was by descriptive statistics and analysis of independent sample T test by using SPSS-18. After analysis of descriptive data, preschool children’s career needs obtained in order of priority: Attachment and emotional support, career confidence, career control, the effect of parental role models, career self-awareness, career concern/curiosity, increasing parents’ knowledge of children’s career. Also the results indicated that there was no significant differences between both genders and both age ranges(5-6 and 6-7) in priority of preschool children’s career needs (p<0/05). Implications for career development efforts and preschool children’s’ career education suggested.