Relationship among vocational preference, self concept and educational needs of married women in women center for continuing education, Sokoto state of Nigeria

Abstract

The major purpose of the study was conducted to find out relationship among self-concept, vocational preference and educational needs of married women in women centre for continuing education Sokoto on senior secondary school married students. The study used a descriptive research of the correlational type design, with a population of 270 senior secondary school married students, the whole population was used as sample and purposive sampling was employed as sampling technique. The instruments used in this study were: Adopted (A) Akinboye’s Adolescent Personal Data Inventory Subscale-A (APDI) for measuring self-concept and (B) researcher designed questionnaire named Questionnaire for Vocational preference and educational needs (QVPEN) which was used in measuring vocational preference and Educational needs respectively. Four hypotheses were formulated, hypotheses 1-3 was analysed using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, while hypothesis 4 was analysed using multiple regression. The major findings of this study are; there is significant relationship between self-concept and vocational preference, there is significant relationship between self-concept and educational needs, there is also significant relationship between vocational preference and educational needs and self-concept is more related to educational needs than vocational preference of married women in women centre for continuing Education. Recommendation were made as efforts to enhanced married women vocational preference through workshops their educational needs can be improved by provision of adequate qualified Teachers, enhancement of their self -concept through teacher’s efforts and school counsellors.