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    Die invloed van geslagsrolhouding en selfbeeld op die loopbaanorientasie van 'n groep standerd nege-meisies
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1992) Andrag, Gertrud Kristin; Nel, E. M.; Steel, H. R.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Department of Psychology.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of various factors on the career orientation of adolescent girls. Career orientated girls were compared to girls wanting to be fulltime housewives with regard to their sex-role attitudes, their self-esteem, the career involvement of their mothers, as well as the attitudes their fathers displayed toward their wives' career involvement. An additional aspect of the research was comparing the sex-role attitudes, self-esteem, career orientation and intellectual ability of girls choosing traditional careers with those indicating non-traditional career choices. The research sample consisted of 149 standard nine girls from two high schools, one being Afrikaans medium, the other English medium. A questionnaire consisting of three sections was answered by the subjects. The first section was aimed at obtaining background information of the subjects and establishing their career orientation. The second and third sections consisted of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory and the Steyn Sex-Role Attitude Questionnaire. The data obtained in the present research indicate that the majority of subjects regard a career as an important aspect of their future. Fewer than 20% of the subjects indicated that they aspired to the traditional role of housewife and mother, whereas 75% were planning for long-term career involvement. Furthermore the results indicate that sex-role attitudes are central to the career development and career choices of girls. Girls with less traditional sex-role attitudes are statistically significantly more often career orientated than girls with traditional sex-role attitudes and also more likely to choose non-traditional careers. It was also found that parents have an important influence on their daughters' sex-role attitudes. Daughters of working mothers were found to have significantly less traditional sex-role attitudes than the daughters of mothers who are full-time housewives. Furthermore, daughters whose fathers encouraged their wives to have a career, were also found to be less traditional in the sex-role attitudes they held, when compared to daughters of fathers who did not encourage their wives to work outside the home. Results also indicated that daughters of working mothers were more often career orientated than those whose mothers were full-time housewives. However, this difference was not statistically significant. The self-esteem scores of career orientated subjects were not found to differ significantly from those of subjects who wanted to become full-time housewives and no significant correlation was found between self-esteem and sex-role attitudes.