Özet:

Individuals' career choice and career preferences are influenced by more than one factor. Some of these factors include the ability to make professional decisions, career concerns and family support in the choice of a profession. The aim of our study is to determine the competence of high school students to make professional decisions, career concerns and the level of family support in their career choice and to study the relationship between them. The scale of competence to make a career decision in the study (Bozgeyikli, 2014), the scale of career anxiety (Cetin Gündüz & Nalbantoğlu Yılmaz, 2016) and the scale of family support in the career selection (Seker & Kaya, 2016) was applied to a province in the east of Turkey, 364 students according to high school studies. The study found that more than half of high school students had a high level of vocational decision-making ability and 4 percent had a low level of vocational decision-making ability. 27% of high school students have a high level of career anxiety and 11% have a low level of family support in their career choices. It has also been determined that there is an average level in the positive direction between professional decision-making ability and family support in the career choice, the average level in the negative direction between professional decision-making ability and career anxiety, the average level in the negative direction between family support and career anxiety in the career choice.

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