Using the Weidman (1989) Undergraduate Socialization model, the present study attempts to
examine the distinction between educational and career aspirations in public and private
university freshman of Semarang, Indonesia. The correlation between the four dimensions of
independent variables, student characteristics, parental socialization, significant others, and
collegiate experiences, and four dependent variables, educational aspirations, expecting a
position as a government employee, expecting a position as a private employee, and career
aspirations were analyzed.
Data were collected through a survey distributed to 379 freshmen students from two public and two private universities, using a stratified sampling method to analyze data from each university. Data were analyzed using zero order correlations and multiple regressions analysis.
For both public and private university students, almost all student characteristic variables
that correlate with educational and career aspirations showed a significant positive effect, and the degree of its correlation for the public sample is greater than for the private counterpart.
For both public and private university students, almost all parental socioeconomic status
indicated a positive significance for educational and career aspirations. For private students,
there were some significant negative effects of parental encouragement, but, on the other hand,
no significant negative effects appear on educational and career aspirations.
All variable significant other for public university showed a positive effect on career
aspirations and some negative effects on three other dependent variables, while for the private
university only one variable, significant other, showed a positive significant effect on career
aspirations and two variables had negative effects on expecting a position as a private employee.
In the public university sample, almost all collegiate experiences variables that had a
correlation to educational and career aspirations showed significant positive effects. In addition,
the relative absence of collegiate experiences for educational and career aspirations, especially
social integration, is somewhat contradictory to Weidmans model.
Expecting a position as a government employee and expecting a position as private employee are new variables and were never used as criterion in the previous research on educational and career aspirations. However, it is not effective enough to employ in the model of educational and career aspirations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PITT/oai:PITTETD:etd-12092005-115753 |
| Date | 13 December 2005 |
| Creators | Prasetyo, Juniarto Rojo |
| Contributors | John C. Weidman, Tony R. Eichelberger, Glenn M. Nelson, Thomas G. Zullo |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh |
| Source Sets | University of Pittsburgh |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-12092005-115753/ |
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