Professional Values and Self-concepts in High School Students

The relationships among self-concepts, future job, and values were investigated in 230 students attending humanities and sciences, polytechnic, and vocational high schools in Catania (Italy). Measures: Semantic Differentials for Self-concepts and Future Job, and Inventory of Professional Values.ResultsVocational students judged as more important relationship, self- improvement, innovation, variety, and physical activity than the others; polytechnic students valued as more important leadership and salary than the others; humanities and sciences students judged as more important responsibility than the others. Vocational students considered Actual Self-concept and Future Job more positively than the others. Positive relationships among values, Self-concepts and Future Job were discussed.