Analyzing factors of career choice and career success based on the attitudes of male and female teachers at Al-Azhar education and Public education

Hassan, Ahmed Mohamed Shabib; El-Jeady, Omar Mahmoud Ahmed Abdullah

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2021.216157

Analyzing factors of career choice and career success based on the attitudes of male and female teachers at Al-Azhar education and Public education"A predictive differential study"

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ علم النفس التعليمي والإحصاء التربوي، کلية التربية بنين بالقاهرة، جامعة الأزهر.

² Educational Psychology and Educational Statistics- Faculty of Education for Boys- Al Azhar University

10.21608/jsrep.2021.216157

Abstract

The aim of the research was to analyze teachers ’attitudes towards the factors of career choice and their relationship to career success among a sample of (605) male and female teachers that included (271) males and (334) females. It was also distributed among (286) teachers of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif and (319) teachers of the Ministry of Education. The career choice factors scale (prepared by the two researchers) and the career success scale (prepared by the two researchers) were administered. By treating the data statistically, the results revealed that there was one of the career choice factors that was more common than the career choice factors among the total sample, which is the environmental factors. There were statistically significant differences in the two dimensions of environmental and societal factors attributed to the gender variable (males, females) in favor of females. There were no statistically significant differences in the dimension of personal factors attributed to the gender variable (males, females). There were no statistically significant differences in the career choice factors (environmental, societal, personality) attributed to the work place (an institute in Al-Azhar, a school in Education Ministry). There was a statistically significant positive correlated relationship between the scores of the total sample members on the scale of career choice factors (environmental, societal, personal) and their scores on the scale of career success. There were only two effective factors of career choice which predicted career success, namely personal and societal factors. The personal factors of career choice contributed more to career success prediction compared to societal factors among the total sample, as well as both the male and female two samples. There were no statistically significant differences in the multiple correlation coefficients resulting from the graded multiple regression analysis between the two groups (males and females). There were only two effective factors of career choice which predicted career success, namely personal and environmental factors among the employees of Al-Azhar institutes. There were only two effective factors of career choice which predicted career success, personal and societal factors among the employees of education schools. The personal factors for career choice contributed more to career success prediction for both employees in Al-Azhar institutes and education schools. There were no statistically significant differences between multiple correlation coefficients among the two groups of employees in Al-Azhar institutes and education schools.

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