The purpose of this study is to bring to light what effects the sex-role related characteristics and attitudes have to the Korean College Women's choice of career.
The research problems of this study are based on the questions given as follow ;
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The purpose of this study is to bring to light what effects the sex-role related characteristics and attitudes have to the Korean College Women's choice of career.
The research problems of this study are based on the questions given as follow ;
First, what is the effect of Tm(traditionality of college major), on the choices of CP(career pattern)?
Second, what are the respective effects of sex-role related characteristics-SRI-M(masculine), SRI-F (feminine), SRI-A(andrognyous), and SRI-U(undifferenciated)-on t choices of CP?
Third, what are the respective effects of sex-role attitudes-AWS -T(traditional), AWS-NT(nontraditional)-on the choices of CP?
Fourth, what effects do Tin has on Tv(the traditionality of vocational choice)?
Fifth, what effects do sex-role related characteristics-SRI-M, SRI-F, SRI-A and SRI-U on Tv?
Sixth, what effects do sex-role attitudes-AWS-T, AWS-NT excercise on Tv?
315 college women students are used as the subjects for this study who cover twenty nine majors of four universities selected by the random sampling both in Seoul and on the other cities and provinces. The instruments used here as methodologies for this research are Personal Attributes Questionnaire(Spence & Helmreich, 1978), Attitudes toward Women Scale(Spence & Helmreich, 1978), Career Pattern(Super, 1957) and Traditionality of college major and vocation by the method of Shinar(1975). The analyses of data are made by statistics through SPSS program - one-way ANOVA and x²test.
The major facts found by this research in this study are ;
First, the proportion of career-patterns chosen by college women is found to be decided by the two factors-SRI-M, SRI-F(P < .001) ; Those who score higher in these analyses on SRI-M choose more highly career-oriented career-patterns than those who score lower than the former, while those women scoring higher on SRI-F are found to choose less career oriented - home oriented - career patterns than those scoring lower.
Second, the proportion of career-pattern chosen by college women is found to be decided by the sex-role attitudes(P < .001) ; Those who assume nontraditional attitudes choose more career-oriented career-patterns than those who take up traditional ones.
Third, the traditionality of vocation chosen by college women is found to be decided by the height of SRI-M(P< .05) ; The women scoring higher on SRI-M choose the vocations of higher traditionality-female dominated vocations-than those scoring lower.
Fourth, 66%(N = 208) of the subjects used here in this research choose the vocations whose traditionality is over median on the traditionality index scale.
82% (N=255) of them choose the vocations whose traditionality is over median on the white-collar index scale.
53 % (N = 168) of them choose vocations which are over median on the traditionality
index scale and white-collar index scale.
On conclusion, career-patterns and traditionality of vocation chosen by college women are to be predicted through sex-role related characteristics-masculine and feminine ; career-patterns are to be predicted through only sex-role attitudes-conservative and progressive ; a majority of the subjects used here choose more feminine-dominated and white-collar vocations.