A participação dos amigos nas escolhas profissionais de adolescentes

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Fábio Nogueira
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3078
• topic: Psicologia; Amizade; Orientação profissional; Interesse profissional x Testes; Relações humanas; Adolescência; 159.9

The relation between friendship and career choice is a research topic in few references in career counseling. This thesis presents a research on 36 students from three private and three public high schools and their perception on peers, friendships, kinship and career choice. The research’s goal was to investigate the peer’s participation in the students’ career choice and its implications towards relationship both within the family and the peer group. Interpersonal relationship’s role during the career choice process is a complex and multileveled issue for discussion. Family (especially parents) and teachers were perceived as having a more direct influence in the students’ career decisions; on the other hand, friends were perceived in a more indirect way (such as talking about career and educational plans and information exchange about it). Adults tended to influence career goals or career choices, while friends cooperate among their network analyzing each other’s opinion on career choices and exchanging information about higher education and professions. This research prompted the students’ perceived social support and intimacy coming from their friends as a source that gets stronger as years go by. Data revealed also that when the family has much influence on the adolescence, his/her autonomy as well as peer influence is lower. The scenario found by the research was a more complex one than what was first expected, and it couldn’t point out influence as the unique process to be investigated on students’ career choice due to the presence of cooperation and social support (mainly when investigating the relations between friendship and career choice), which were also revealed from the data analysis and should be further researched.