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    Die verwantskap tussen sekere aanlegte en persoonlikheidseienskappe en die realisme van beroepskeuse
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1994-12) Beneke, Jakobus Oosthuizen; Le Roux J. A.; Meyer, J. C.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Psychology.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The future of any country belongs to the youth and the youth of South Africa has a right to receive information concerning existing and expected opportunities in all the different sectors of the national economy. Furthermore, the youth also has a right to receive professional career guidance from counselling psychologists of indisputable integrity. Irreparable harm can be done by unskilled, untrained and uninformed persons who venture into the field of counselling. An overview of the literature indicates that psychologists in the Republic of South Africa have a real need for models that can be used for the valid and reliable assessment of realistic career choice for matriculants. The purpose of the research was to determine by means of thorough investigation the validity of the independent variables: aptitude, interest fields, personality traits, components of the self-concept, socio-economic status and academic choice. achievement as predictors of realistic career choice. The measuring instruments were the Manpower Aptitude Test Battery (MATB), the Kodus Interest Questionnaire (Kodus), the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16-PF) and the Duncan Index Scale. The academic achievement was obtained from the average marks in the standard nine year-end examination. Vocational choice was measured by means of a vocational questionnaire. Three psychologists acting as judges independently rated the realism of pupil’s career choice on a five-point scale. The pupil's vocational choice, along with relevant information about the pupil such as aptitude, interest fields, personality traits, self-concept, academic achievement, values and socio-economic status was supplied to each judge. The sample for the purposes of this study consisted of 606 Black, White and Coloured matriculants from nine schools in the Southern Cape. The validity investigation of the predictors was conducted with the aid of stepwise multiple regression analysis as well as stepwise discriminant analysis. This was done on various predictor groupings for realism of career choice in order to determine the best predictor combinations and optimum prediction efficiency. Using the stepwise regression analysis, various so-called "best" prediction models, consisting of combinations of predictors, could be compiled. Multiple regression equations for prediction could also be made available. With a view to future use, classification functions equations to classify "new" cases as realistic career choice/unrealistic career choice were made available with the aid of discriminant analysis. Based on the findings of the research, the conclusion was reached that certain predictors (Average Aptitude, Self-Concept - Identity, Academic Achievement, Interest - Public Appearance, Interest - Individual, Personality - Self-sufficiency) offered a high rate of prediction efficiency in respect of realistic career choice. From an overview of the literature on the subject and the findings of this research it was concluded th.at realistic career choice models would probably be the most efficient manner in which to determine the realism of career choices in high school children. Such regression models which have been compiled as a result of the present studies for races, collectively and apart, can be of practical value to psychologists.