Year: 2025 | Month: September | Volume 14 | Issue 3
Parent - Child Knowledge Exposure Concerning Job Opportunities in Haryana
Shalini
DOI:10.46852/2249-6637.02.2025.3
Abstract:
Adolescence is a critical time to formulate one’s career aspirations and expectations. It is a time when one’s personal horizons are being developed and explored. Career choice is one important decision in adolescents’ life that every human being makes sometimes in life, it is a decision in which nobody should make a mistake because what a person does for a living affects in the present, as well as for the rest of life. Parent-child relationship refers to the unique and enduring bond between a caregiver and his or her child. The study was conducted in Haryana state purposively. Two districts, Hisar and Bhiwani were selected randomly from Haryana state on the basis of rural female literacy rate i.e. in between 65%. The total sample of 200 adolescent girls and 200 parents (200 mothers & 200 fathers) were selected for the study, thus making a total sample of 600. It was found that Majority of fathers (78%) knew about national institutes and 74 percent fathers had knowledge about local institutes. In rural area, half of adolescents had knowledge about national (50 %) and local institutes (68%).
Highlights
- Study was conducted among 200 adolescent girls and 400 parents in Hisar and Bhiwani districts of Haryana.
- Fathers possessed greater knowledge about national and local educational institutes than mothers.
- Urban respondents had higher awareness regarding training institutes and coaching centres than rural respondents.
- Media exposure and informational booklet significantly improved adolescent girls’ knowledge about job opportunities.
- Post-exposure results showed 100 percent adolescent girls attained a high level of knowledge regarding career opportunities.
- Teaching, banking and fashion designing emerged as the most preferred career options among adolescent girls.
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