Vocational choice (I): Vocational maturity and religious commitment, a preliminary study

• Main Author: Chan Yuk Cheung, Anthony
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1973
• Subjects: Vocational guidance; Vocation (in religious orders; congregations; etc); Marriage counseling > Case studies; Counseling; Religion
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/214
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study aims to investigate the relationship between religious commitment and vocational maturity. It also aims to study the vocational process as applied to the religious life. The normative method of research was used in this study. Twenty three students in the religious house of formation were interviewed and tested. Two questionnaires were given to the subjects, one before the semi-structured interview and one after the interview. The written answers and the interview record sheets were content analyzed using the criteria based on the theory and research methods of Donald Super. The Spearman rho rank correlation coefficients were obtained and statistically tested. The multiple regression equations were computed for each of the five dimensions and the overall measure of vocational maturity, as well as their religious commitment. The five dimensions of vocational maturity measured were orientation to choice, specificity of information and planning for the preferred vocation, consistency of choice, vocational self concept, and wisdom of choice. It was found that there was no significant relationship between vocational maturity as measured by the vocational maturity index and religious commitment as measured by the religious vocational maturity index. Except for dimension IV, vocational self-concept, there was no significant relationship between the vocational maturity dimensions and religious commitment. From the examination of the correlation matrices of the seven sets of criteria for vocational maturity and religious commitment, it was concluded that dimension III - consistency of choice, dimension IV - vocational self-concept, and the overall vocational maturity Index were satisfactory because they have good internal consistency. When the personal-social-economical-family data were correlated with religious commitment and vocational maturity using the chi-square test, no significant relationship was found. The fact that the self rating of religious commitment failed to give any correlation with the fairly