Effect of character strengths on career attitude and goal selection

Pages: 130-135
Poorva Deshpande1 and Himani Raichur2 (Department of Psychology, Behavioural Analyst and Assistant Manager, Brainberg, Pune, Maharashtra1 and Department of Psychology, Fergusson College, Pune, Maharashtra2)

The research paper links two components of Career Maturity-Attitude towards career and Goal selection process with the Character Strengths. It assumes that awareness of the character strengths would have a positive impact on career attitude and goal selection behaviour in school children. This link is speculated to be of cause and effect relationship. Hence 60 students from 8th and 9th standards were chosen for the research. The students were rated on the scales of the Career Maturity Inventory-Indian adaptation. The Character strength (VIA) survey was administered to the students of the experimental group and their 24 strengths were discussed. The intervention was significant for the attitude scale than for the goal selection process. The difference between pre-test and post-test means was significant at .01 level on attitude scale, but not on goal setting scale. That means, through character strengths we can influence students’ attitudes toward their career.