IDEAS OF CZECH ADOLESCENTS ABOUT THEIR FUTURE PROFESSION ASSESSED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THEIR FAVORABLENESS AND COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY – RELATED TO SOME COMPONENTS OF UPBRINGING AND SELF-ESTEEM
Journal Title: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
In the presented research, the ideas of Czech adolescents about their future profession were researched. In the research, data from examinations of 17-year-old respondents were analyzed. The views of their future vocation as well as the vocations of signifcant others (mother, father, signifcant other) were acquired by a modifed version of the REP-test and assessed from the perspective of their favorableness and cognitive complexity. The aim was to detect relations between the assessment of individual vocations, the components of upbringing analyzed by the Czech Questionnaire for Determining the Upbringing Style in Family (Čáp, Boschek) and self-esteem measured by Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. It was discovered that adolescents, while assessing their potential future vocation, are influenced by family upbringing- there is a strong influence of the factor of emotional warmth in family related to a positive relationship to the adolescents’ vocational future. Moreover, it became evident that the more negative view the adolescents have of the individual vocations, the more differentiated they try to perceive them (higher cognitive complexity), probably in order to develop appropriate coping strategies in their future performance or to justify their negative assessment by a more precise, i.e. not “black and white” perspective. However, in a more detailed analysis, it was revealed that vocations viewed as strongly negative and strongly positive are perceived as less differentiated than vocations assessed in a neutral way, which can be explained by the hypothesis of emotional engagement.
Authors and Affiliations
Ivana Poledňová, Vladimir Marček, Šárka Portešová
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