The vocational choices (industrial and/or agricultural) of 863 adolescents from 4 rural Italian provinces of differing socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds were analyzed in terms of the motivational need underlying vocational choice. These provinces included the traditionally rural Cosenza in southern Italy, the more developed Treviso and Reggio…

To study the relationship between the school and the rural family, and particularly to establish reasons for student dropout, a questionnaire was administered in 1973 to 103 students who dropped out of school in 2 large rural towns in the Veneto, Italy. Responses indicated that about 60% of the adolescents left school to help out the family or…