Maturity for career choice and birth order in adolescents

• Grant number: 16/09749-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: July 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Fundamentals and Assessments in Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Lucy Leal Melo-Silva
• Grantee: Dayane Barbosa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Several studies have been done on the variable level of "maturity for career choice" and "birth order", but there were no investigations into the relationship between them. Due to this gap, this study aims to investigate the relationship between the level of maturity for career choice and birth order in adolescents who participated in interventions in vocational guidance, as the categories of birth order: only child, firstborns, middleborns, and lastborns. The data will be obtained through the service registers of the Vocational Guidance Service of the years from 2003 to 2013. The sample consists of approximately 700 ex-users, who responded to Career Choice Maturity Scale (Escala de Maturidade para a Escolha Profissional, EMEP) of Neiva (1999). The EMEP consists of five subscales: determination, responsibility, independence, self-knowledge and knowledge of the socio-educational and professional reality. The data will be organized in SPSS software, version 22.0 and the relationship between the study variables, including the gender variable, will be statistically analyzed.