Die invloed van geslagsrolhouding en selfbeeld op die loopbaanorientasie van 'n groep standerd nege-meisies

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study was to examine the influence ofvarious factors on the career orientation of adolescent girls.Career orientated girls were compared to girls wanting to befulltime housewives with regard to their sex-role attitudes,their self-esteem, the career involvement of their mothers, aswell as the attitudes their fathers displayed toward theirwives' career involvement. An additional aspect of the researchwas comparing the sex-role attitudes, self-esteem,career orientation and intellectual ability of girls choosingtraditional careers with those indicating non-traditionalcareer choices.The research sample consisted of 149 standard nine girls fromtwo high schools, one being Afrikaans medium, the otherEnglish medium. A questionnaire consisting of three sectionswas answered by the subjects. The first section was aimed atobtaining background information of the subjects andestablishing their career orientation. The second and thirdsections consisted of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventoryand the Steyn Sex-Role Attitude Questionnaire.The data obtained in the present research indicate that themajority of subjects regard a career as an important aspect oftheir future. Fewer than 20% of the subjects indicated thatthey aspired to the traditional role of housewife and mother,whereas 75% were planning for long-term career involvement. Furthermore the results indicate that sex-role attitudes arecentral to the career development and career choices of girls.Girls with less traditional sex-role attitudes are statisticallysignificantly more often career orientated than girlswith traditional sex-role attitudes and also more likely tochoose non-traditional careers.It was also found that parents have an important influence ontheir daughters' sex-role attitudes. Daughters of workingmothers were found to have significantly less traditional sex-roleattitudes than the daughters of mothers who are full-timehousewives. Furthermore, daughters whose fathers encouragedtheir wives to have a career, were also found to be less traditionalin the sex-role attitudes they held, when compared todaughters of fathers who did not encourage their wives to workoutside the home. Results also indicated that daughtersof working mothers were more often career orientated thanthose whose mothers were full-time housewives. However, thisdifference was not statistically significant.The self-esteem scores of career orientated subjects were notfound to differ significantly from those of subjects whowanted to become full-time housewives and no significant correlationwas found between self-esteem and sex-role attitudes.

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