O BBT-Br e a maturidade para a escolha profissional: evidências empíricas de validade / BBT-Br and maturity for professional choice: Empirical evidences of validity

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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Career choice is a process which can present different levels of complexity, depending on the conflicts one goes through, the resources for adequately dealing with and solve it, and the maturity degree for this occupational decision. Scientific literature relates maturity for career choice to developing certain attitudes (determination, independence and responsibility) and acquiring specific knowledge (about oneself and careersrealities). Within this context, the present investigation aimed to examine the informative possibilities of the BBT-Br (Photos of Professions Test), regarding its indicators of maturity for career choice, as well as validate and ground some of the interpretative hypotheses for this projective technique, optimizing its resources for Vocational Guidance processes. The participants were 93 high-school students in the last year of a day-shift public school in Ribeirão Preto (State of São Paulo, Brazil), from both genders. The participants were divided in two groups of contrasting characteristics regarding their maturity for career choice (GA = 55, highly mature, GB = 38, lowly mature), previously selected for their results on the Maturity for Career Choice Scale (Escala de Maturidade para Escolha Profissional - EMEP), which had been applied collectively. All participants were then assessed individually using the BBT-Br. Inferential statistical analyses were performed for the results (Mann-Whitney Test, p <= 0,05), comparing GA and GB, as well as their respective subgroups (as a function of gender), for the following variables: 1) EMEP results on each subscale (determination, responsibility, independence, self-knowledge and knowledge about career reality) and for total maturity; 2) BBT-Br: number of positive, negative and neutral choices; choice frequency (positive, negative and neutral) for primary and secondary factors (eight of each one). Also, inclination structures were analyzed (positive and negative, primary and secondary ones), as well as the most chosen and most rejected photos. The results show the existence of adolescentsproduction specificities, regarding their level of career choice maturity and gender. For the latter variable, some BBT-Br factors, were chosen more frequently by females (primary factors: W, Z, O; secondary ones: w and m) and more rejected by males (primary factors: W, Z, M; secondary ones: w), mainly those related to activities attributed to femininity in the brazilian sociocultural context. These results empirically confirm evidences of the sociocultural influence in determining career-related interests. In relation to the focus variable for the present study, that is, career choice maturity, GA adolescents showed wider attitudes for professional possibilities (higher number of positive choices and lower number of rejections), comparatively to the low maturity group, which in their turn restricted their positive choices and presented a high number of negative choices in the BBT-Br. Such data is confirmed in the analysis of frequency distribution for positive, negative and neutral choices of both primary and secondary BBT-Br factors. In the same direction, it can be noted that GA chose significantly more and rejected less photos from factors S (social sense and dynamism), V (precision, objectivity) and G (creativity, research) and five secondary factors (k, s, v, g, o). As for GB, the opposite was observed, or, less positive choices and more rejections to the primary factors mentioned before and six secondary factors (s, g, o, z, v, m). In general, adolescents with higher maturity indexes for career choice considered a higher number of BBT-Brs professional options, which can be explored and, consequently, integrated in their occupational decisions. On the other hand, lower mature adolescents end up, with their rejections, to restrict their possibilities to know and consider these factors for their professional choices. Thus, it can be concluded that maturity level for career choice (EMEP results) is related to a direct influence in productivity indexes of the BBT-Br, confirming their interpretative hypothesis and, so, increasing validity indicators for this projective technique in the contemporary sociocultural context.

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adolescentes bbt-br orientação vocacional / profissional. adolescents career choice escolha profissional bbt-br vocational maturity emep maturidade vocacional vocational guidance. emep

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