Abstract:

This study has studied whether the unreasonable beliefs of high school students about the choice of a profession, according to their gender, school types, classes, general academic ratio and the field of education they consider to choose in the university, have changed or not. The data of the study were collected from a total of 353 students, including 175 girls and 178 boys, in four secondary schools located in a province in the Anatolian Region.  The Personal Information Form has been used for the collection of data with the scale of the thoughts on the choice of a profession and the information about the gender, schools, classes, general ratio and the field of education they are thinking of choosing at the university. T test and one-way variance analysis were used for analysis. The study found that men and girls have more unreasonable beliefs about the choice of a career than eleven-year-old students. Among the schools, the professional non-rational beliefs of the Anadolu High School-2 students were found lower than the Professional and Technical High School, Anadolu High School-1 and Social Sciences High School students. According to the general academic ratings, it has been found that the unrational beliefs of students about their career choice have not changed. In the unreasonable beliefs of students about the fields of education they are thinking of choosing at the university, the difference was found only in the field of engineering production and construction education. The source of the difference has shown that those who are planning to choose the field of engineering production and construction have higher unreasonable beliefs about the choice of a profession than those who are unplanned and unstable. The findings were discussed according to the research results in the field related to career psychological counseling and some recommendations were presented.