Career Conflict among Senior Secondary Female Student of Bhojpur, Bihar

Abstract

Deciding a perfect career is not an easy task for anyone. People on their age of adolescence must have to decide in which field they wanted to go, so they must choose a proper stream and subject to achieve the career target they want.This is the period of emotional and mental struggle within the person themselves, which is called career conflict. Societal and parental pressure as well as person’s interest always conflicting to each other. This study is trying to find out the level of career conflict among senior secondary girl students in the Bhojpur district of Bihar. Study is comparing the students of two board, Bihar Board and CBSE as well as two family background urban and rural. Research is based on 2x2 factorial research design which is divided in two strata boards(Bihar board and CBSE board) and family background (urban and rural). Each strata comprises 50 participants, thus total sample size is 200. To measure the level of career conflict, Career Conflict Scale (CCS-KAR) by Dr. Aneet Kumarwas used. Full scale score was calculated by summing the marks obtained on each question. Then average score was calculated for each sample group. Then average score was converted in z score norm based on CCS-KAR manual. Data analysisand discussion concluded thatBihar board students having slightly high level of career conflict than CBSE board students, whereas rural students shown less career conflict than urban students.