Indian studies on occupational aspiration: A systemic review

Pages: 1917-1920
Singdha Panday (MATS School of Education, MATS University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh)
Vaishali Shukla (School of Studies in Regional Studies and Research Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur, Chhattisgarh)

The aim of the present review is to find out the research status from the relevant research literature, on occupational aspiration of Indian studies. A literature search using J gate, Google Scholar, INFLIBNET, Science Direct, J-store, database covering the period from 2000 to 2018 was conducted. The authors reviewed 12 studies with certain inclusion and exclusion criteria. Search terms were occupational aspiration academic achievement, self-concept and self-efficacy. After examining different aspect of 12 empirical papers, it was found that most of the studies (a) have been conducted on adolescent population (b) self-concept and self-efficacy were found most important variable affecting occupational aspiration (c) inspite of being potential predicting values of self-esteem, cognitive differentiation, occupational information, computer assisted, career decision making, self-efficacy this variable have been ignored by the researchers working in this area of research in India Methodological and theoretical issues have been discussed.