Comparing the Effectiveness of Career Adaptability Education to Preschool Students and Attachment-based Counseling to Their Parents on Children’s Career Development

Abstract

Aim: The current study aimed to compare attachment-based counseling to mothers and the impact of career adaptability education to preschool children on children's career development in city of Isfahan. Methods: The statistical population included all of the preschool children aged 5 to 7 and parents of 5 to 7-year-old preschool children in city of Isfahan. Thirty preschool children, aged 5 to 7, were selected voluntarily and randomly divided into two experiment and control groups (10 children in each group). The parent group received the attachment-based counseling, the children group received the career adaptability education, both in 8 sessions. The control group did not receive any education. Data. were collected with preschool students' career development questionnaire, and were analyzed using SPSS-18 and analysis of covariance. Findings: The results suggest that two methods had a considerable effect on time perspective (P<0/05, F=7/35), internal curiosity (P<0/05, F=3/91), information (P<0.05, F=6/06), and external curiosity (P<0/001, F=10/41), and there was no significant differences between the effectiveness of the two methods (P<0/05). Conclusion: Career education and counseling to preschool children and parents impacted the children's career development.