Role of Cognitive Differentiation, Parental Influence and Gender in Career Decision Making

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to find out the career decision making ability of career-oriented boys and girl students in relation to their parental influence and cognitive differentiation ability. Human beings are considered both rational and emotional beings. Making an appropriate career decision is really important to grow in careers that is why to study factors as cognitive differentiation, parental influence and gender targeted to study. To study these factors factorial design 2x2x2 with fixed effect model was employed using stratified random sampling.