The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and intention of keep working, and find out such factors as have influences upon intention of keep working. The participants in this study were 329 nurses in 4 general hospitals who have worked for 1 to 5 years. They were asked to fill out a questionnaire about the reasons for job selection, job satisfaction and intention of keep working. The reasons for job selection and job satisfaction were factor-analyzed. "Self-actualization" and "economic-stabilization" were extracted from the reasons for job selection. Six factors were extracted from job satisfaction; "nursing-oriented", "professional autonomy", "management system", "relationship with doctors", "relationship with nurses" and "work environment" . The main results were as follows: (1) Self-actualization had a significant effect on four factors of job satisfaction but not on professional autonomy and relationship with nurses by means of multiple regression analysis. (2) Intention of keep working was distinguished from nursing-oriented of job satisfaction by means of discriminant analysis. The results of this study suggested career guidance in high school was important for nurses.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of students' grades and gender on their perception of university entrance examinations. The data were collected from 133 high schools in Japan, totaling 5436 students. The schools were randomly selected among those schools in which more than 50% of the students took the National Center Test. The main findings were, (1) in choosing the universities to apply, female students regarded their probability of passing the examinations and the opportunity of taking occupational licenses more important than male students did, (2) students in the high grade level considered their aptitude to the departments when they chose universities/department to apply, but they relatively had negative attitude for including aptitude measurement into examinations. We summarized the implied strategies for university entrance examinations taken by the students of different levels of grade and the gender.

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The recommendation system is adopted by almost all of the prefectures in Japan. It was criticized that written examination promoted education-consciousness and it ignored the students' various strong points. The policy-makers and supporters who promote the recommendation system say that school can select students who have individuality and students can choose the qualified school for themselves. Until the recommendation system diffused, the criteria of school choice were the prestige of the school and the students' academic record. I administered a questionnaire survey to 913 high school students. The 13 items on the motives for selecting high schools were factor-analyzed. Five factors were extracted. And one more factor whether they think their own academic score as important was added. Their factors' item score set on dependent variable, and analysis of variance was carried out. These samples were divided into the academic course and vocational course. Some of the findings were as follows. 1) As a whole, motives for selecting high schools were strongly specified by academic records. 2) Vocational course students who got high academic records tended to consider their future occupations and not to think academic records as important. Academic course students have completely reverse tendency.

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