Effects of Students' Self-Concepts on Their Job-Consciousness in Technical High School

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of students' self-concepts on their job-consciousness in technical high school. We have conducted a survey of 208 students on 12th grade by using the "Scale of self-concept in technical high school (Moriyama et. al 2004)" and the "Scale of students' job-consciousness (Kakihara et.al 1996)". As results, it was indicated that the self-concept formed at the industrial high school promoted their job-consciousness. In particular, "attitudes toward social values" has been influential in all factors of job-consciousness. Also, we classified the students into 2 groups such as the specialty-related job group (n=50) and the non specialty-related job group (n=68). As a result, attitude toward professional skill development" of self-concept was relevant to "self-actualization" and "human relation of workplace" of job-consciousness in case of the specialty-related job group. However, in case of the non specialty-related job group, there was relevance between "attitude toward self-monitoring" of self-concept and "social status" of job-consciousness.