
Comparing the Effectiveness of Career Adaptability Education to Preschool Students and Attachment-based Counseling to Their Parents on Children’s Career Development
Author(s) -
Nazanin Khorasani,
M R Abedi,
Ahmad Sadeghi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
pizhuhish/hā-yi mushāvirah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2717-4018
pISSN - 2717-400X
DOI - 10.18502/qjcr.v20i80.8843
Subject(s) - curiosity , adaptability , psychology , population , medicine , developmental psychology , social psychology , ecology , environmental health , biology
Aim: The current study aimed to compare attachment-based counseling to mothers and the impact of career adaptability education to preschool children on children's career development in city of Isfahan. Methods: The statistical population included all of the preschool children aged 5 to 7 and parents of 5 to 7-year-old preschool children in city of Isfahan. Thirty preschool children, aged 5 to 7, were selected voluntarily and randomly divided into two experiment and control groups (10 children in each group). The parent group received the attachment-based counseling, the children group received the career adaptability education, both in 8 sessions. The control group did not receive any education. Data. were collected with preschool students' career development questionnaire, and were analyzed using SPSS-18 and analysis of covariance. Findings: The results suggest that two methods had a considerable effect on time perspective (P<0/05, F=7/35), internal curiosity (P<0/05, F=3/91), information (P<0.05, F=6/06), and external curiosity (P<0/001, F=10/41), and there was no significant differences between the effectiveness of the two methods (P<0/05). Conclusion: Career education and counseling to preschool children and parents impacted the children's career development.