Nazanin Khorasani, Mohammadreza Abedi, Ahmad Sadeghi,
Volume 15, Issue 59 (10-2016)
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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.
Nazanin Khorasani, Mohammadreza Abedi, Ahmad Sadeghi,
Volume 20, Issue 80 (3-2022)
Abstract
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Aim: The aim of the current study was a comparison between the effect of career adaptability education to preschool children and attachment-based counseling to their parents on children’s’ career development in Isfahan city. Methods: Statistical population including all of preschool children, aged 5 to 7 and parents of 5 to 7-year-old preschool children in Isfahan city. 30 preschool children, aged 5 to 7 selected voluntary and randomly divided to two experiment and control groups (10 children in each group). Data was gathered by using preschool children’s’ career development questionnaire. The parent group received the Attachment-based counseling and the children group received the Career adaptability education both in 8 sessions and The control group did not receive any education. Data was analyzed by using SPSS-18 and analysis of covariance. Findings: The results showed that both career education to children and parents has significant effect on children’s’ career development (P<0.001), and It was no significant differences between the effect of two methods (P<0/05). Also the secondary finding from research suggest that two methods had significant effect on time perspective, internal curiosity, information and external curiosity (P<0/05). Conclusion: Therefore, the research findings illustrated that career educations to children and parents can have beneficial result on childrenchr('39')s career development.
