Gender Differences on Dimensions of Vocational Interest among Adolescent Students

Pages: 247-251
Mohammad Akram (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

In this advance era, we can observe that unemployment is increasing day by day and there are many vocations are vacant for the deserving, skilled and eligible candidates. This may be because of the choice of vocations and subject combination of the study in school is always a problem for students. So, before choosing the right career, it is very important for students that they must know about their interest, skills and ability and choose the stream and subjects/course very carefully according to their wishes. In this regard, the present research tries to make an attempt to assess the gender differences in different dimensions of vocational interest among adolescent students studying in 9th class, schools of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. The Vocational Interest Record inventory (VIR) by Kulshrestha (1977) was used to collect data in which 150 (75 boys & 75 girls) students participated. The data was analyzed with the help of Mean, SD, and t-test. The result revealed that the adolescent students (male & female) were significantly differed on overall vocational interest while were not differed on the (commercial, constructive, agriculture, & persuasive) dimensions of vocational interest.