School type and location as correlates of career choice among senior secondary school adolescents: Counselling Implications
Abstract
This paper assessed the influence of school type and location on the career choices of senior
secondary school adolescents in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. The
correlational survey approach was adopted for the study, in which two questions were raised and
the corresponding hypotheses were formulated. The Population comprised two thousand two
hundred and seventy (2270) SS1 students from the 12 public secondary schools in Egor Local
Government Area of Edo State with a sample size of four hundred (400) students drawn from
SS1 classes in eight (8) public secondary schools randomly selected in Egor Local Government
Area of Edo State. The instrument titled “Career Interest Survey Questionnaire” (CISQ) developed
by Akinade (2019) and modified by the researchers was adopted for data collection. The
instrument was trial tested for reliability and a Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient
r-value of .78 was obtained. Data were analyzed using Regression Analysis. The result indicated
that school type significantly influences the career choice of secondary school adolescents, while
school location did not significantly influence the career choice of secondary school adolescents.
It was then recommended that Professional school counselors should be sent to schools
irrespective of the school type i.e. co-educational and single-sex and location i.e. urban or rural
for support on career guidance as this would help in assessing the needs of adolescents with
regards to career choices and thus providing the necessary assistance.
Keywords: Influence, School type, location, Correlates, career choices and adolescents.
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