Sustainability of Youth Careers in Romania—Study on the Correlation of Students’ Personal Interests with the Selected University Field of Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- The Ikigai concept—choosing a path in life [21], with the four essential components: passion, mission, profession and vocation.
- Who am I?—The self, self-image, self-esteem [19].
- Intelligence—Theory of Multiple Intelligences, emotional intelligence, intra and interpersonal communication.
- Motivation—Motivational factors, information and learning management [37].
- Structure of thinking. The functions of thinking—attention and will.
- Ganbarimasu and shinkansen—How to have great ideas—Shinkansen; The luck of the beginner and the test of the winner—perseverance and patience—Ganbarimasu [21].
- Profile personal career map [40].
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Overview
- Identify students’ interests using the Holland Test.
- Analysis of students’ interests from the perspective of statistical questions.
- Analysis of the first three interests of the students, who recorded the highest score, in the form of the summative code.
- Correlation of the summative code with the three types of relations of the RIASEC marrow: adjacent, alternative, opposite.
- Comparing the summative code of the RIASEC model with the interests required by the engineering profession.
2.2. Participants
2.3. Materials
3. Results
4. Discussion and Conclusions
4.1. Analysis of the Obtained Data
4.2. Data analysis According to Holland’s Theory
- Social—investigative—10%;
- Investigative—social—13.4%;
- Entrepreneur—conventional—5%;
- Conventional—entrepreneurial—10%.
5. Conclusions
6. Study Implications and Limitations
7. Future Research Directions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Rank II | Rank III | ||
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Rank I | Pearson Correlation | 0.861 ** | 0.785 ** |
Rank III | |||
Rank II | Pearson Correlation | 0.897 ** | |
Rank I | |||
Summative code | Pearson Correlation | 0.994 ** |
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Cioca, L.-I.; Bratu, M.L. Sustainability of Youth Careers in Romania—Study on the Correlation of Students’ Personal Interests with the Selected University Field of Study. Sustainability 2021, 13, 229. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010229
Cioca L-I, Bratu ML. Sustainability of Youth Careers in Romania—Study on the Correlation of Students’ Personal Interests with the Selected University Field of Study. Sustainability. 2021; 13(1):229. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010229
Chicago/Turabian StyleCioca, Lucian-Ionel, and Mihaela Laura Bratu. 2021. "Sustainability of Youth Careers in Romania—Study on the Correlation of Students’ Personal Interests with the Selected University Field of Study" Sustainability 13, no. 1: 229. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010229