Research Article
The Role of Parental Involvement in Shaping Career Aspiration Among Secondary Schools Students in West Hararghe Zone, Ethiopia
Assefa Kibret Melaku*
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2025
Pages:
69-81
Received:
5 July 2025
Accepted:
19 July 2025
Published:
5 August 2025
Abstract: Career development can start when someone is quite young and just learning about different ways to make a living. It is a part of human development, and the process can span a lifetime. Career development is a life-long journey that starts at mid adolescence and ends at retirement, career development is processes parents are one of the most important and influential elements but they may not be aware, the study was to investigate the role of parental involvement to shaping students Career Aspiration among Secondary schools’ students in West Hararghe Zone, Ethiopia. To achieve the objective, 191 students were taken from grade 11 and 12 students of West Hararghe Zone simple random sampling, classic stratified random sampling (CSRS), finally the researcher was used the respondent selected by systematic sampling (SYS) and the interview respondents selected non-probability sampling technique particularly purposive sampling technique. the results revealed that the parental involvement variables had statistically significant relationship to students’ career development aspiration in general, the correlation analysis proved that student’s achievement aspirations (r = 239, p-value < 0.05), students leadership aspirations (r = 0.197, p-value < 0.05), students’ career development aspirations (r = 0.152, p-value < 0.05) have a statistical significance relationship with practices of parental involvement. On the basis of these results, it was recommended that principals, supervisors, teachers, parents, counselors and educational practitioners should give due attention to parental involvement variables and students’ career development aspiration in secondary schools, Students’ career aspiration indicators such as students’ achievement aspirations, student leadership aspirations and students’ academic aspirations have a positive relationship with the role of parental involvement, The independent variables such as parents’ education level, occupation, socio-economic statuses, and psychological awareness are needed to influences to shape student’s career aspirations, As regression analysis confirmed that there was statistical significant relationship between independent variables and the dependent variable, In this case parents’ education level, occupation, socio-economic statuses, and psychological awareness play a great role to shaping students’ career aspirations, The positive value of the coefficients for each predictor indicated that there was a positive relation between the independent and dependent variables, This showed the strengthening and diction of the two variables. An increase in the value of each of these predictors showed an increase to shaping student’s career aspirations.
Abstract: Career development can start when someone is quite young and just learning about different ways to make a living. It is a part of human development, and the process can span a lifetime. Career development is a life-long journey that starts at mid adolescence and ends at retirement, career development is processes parents are one of the most importa...
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