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Predictors of Occupational Choice among Rural Youth: Implications for Career Education and Development Programming.

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Conroy, Carol A. – 1997

A survey of rural secondary school students examined the formation of adolescent occupational identity by identifying predictors of students' ideal jobs. Data were collected from 612 of the approximately 750 students in grades 7-12 in a rural Pennsylvania school district. Predictors of choice of ideal job, by descending influence, were gender,…

Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Guidance