Urmila Sadolikar
2016
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Journal of psychosocial research
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INTRODUCTIONAfter World War II humanistic psychologists Carl Rogers, Erich Fromm & Abraham Maslow focused on positive aspects of human nature. Ninety nine per cent people prefer the influence of positive people (Clifton & Rath, 2005). Positive aspects, positive relations encourage an individual to strive to do their best. Obviously, vocational aspiration is not an exceptional part of an individual's development.Work is a crucial part of one's life. It contributes to personal identity and may also be central to one's social life. Working is a meaningful act that brings psychological well-being and satisfaction (Feldman, 2009). Choice of work and vocational development is a life-long process (Ginzberg, 1972). Current theorists put a broader, developmental approach to career psychology that stresses the importance of biological, parental, societal factors, personality and life stage influences on career development (Borgen, 1991; Gelso & Fassinger, 1992; Osipow, 1990).Among different life stages 'adolescent' is a transitory stage. Hence, study of aspirations during this stage has received considerable attention. It provides a means of assessing the cumulative effect of family and school experiences on future orientations of adolescents at a time when they are about to act upon their choices and encounter the realities of the adult world (Marini, 1978).Women's career choices and its development have some distinctive characters. Farmer (1985) showed that background factors play significant role in women's career aspiration. Among various background factors positive parent-child relations is a crucial factor in promoting adolescent girls' career aspirations. Even though peer influence is there, parent-child relationship maintains its importance in development of the adolescents (Steinberg, 2001). Parents' intentional career-related actions are important in preparing children to be tomorrow's workers, tomorrow's citizens (Way & Rossmann, 1996).OBJECTIVETo study the relationship between positive parent-child relations and vocational aspiration.HYPOTHESISPositive parent-child relations promote vocational aspirations among adolescent girls.METHODSampleThe total sample for the present study was 150 adolescent girls having 13 to 15 years of age. The selected girls were from five different schools located in the different areas of Pune city. The sample of the study belonged to the schools having co-education system. The selected girls were from middle socio-economic status.Tools Used1. Parent-Child Relationship Scale - Parent-Child Relationship Scale is developed by Rao (1989). The tool contains 100 items categorized into 10 dimensions. Each respondent scores the tool for both Father and Mother separately on a five point rating scale. The reliability of the tool is computed for the study and is found to be .94 using the Cronbach's Alpha, .84 using the Split-Half reliability.2. Occupational Aspiration Scale - Occupational Aspiration Scale is developed by Grewal (1975). The scale has eight multiple choice items. Each item contains ten occupations of all status levels arranged in a mixed order. The score of each item ranges 0 to 9. The test-retest reliability score is .84.RESULTSHypothesis: Suggested that there is significant relationship between positive parent-child relations and girls vocational aspiration and vice versa.Overall picture shows that positive dimensions of parent-child relations i.e. protecting, symbolic reward, loving and object reward are significantly related to girls' vocational aspirations. Table indicates that correlation between positive dimensions of PCR and vocational aspiration are found PFollowing graph shows the relationship between vocational aspiration and parent child relationship.In the present study the overall result indicated that correlation between positive dimensions of PCR and vocational aspiration is found at significant level. …