Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Potocnik, Dunja

Titel

Going to University: Motivation Structure and Expectations for Finding a Desired Job

Ist Teil von

• Sociologija i prostor, 2008-07, Vol.46, p.265-284

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• High education of the young population & their later employment are key resources of economic & social prosperity of a community. Numerous researches show that the starting point of this assumption, motivation for going to university, goes back to adolescence. The goal of our research is to find out what motivates students from the University of Zagreb to do their studies. According to our results, most students choose to study subjects they are interested in, they choose professions they love & where employment is high. Students are well aware of the situation on the job market & quite accurately assess their chances of employment. The following reasons cause problems with employment: low ranking of some professions & high unemployment, personal drawbacks (such as bad marks during studies), bad political situation, administrative problems & corruption. According to their expressed attitudes, students prove to be quite a homogeneous group; statistically relevant differences among students -- regarding motivation for going to university & expected success in finding a job -- are only related to their different fields of study. Adapted from the source document.