A Study of Cognitive Process Development of Occupational Aspirations on Children

This study aimed at investigating the process of cognitive development of career aspirations among children. For this purpose، 179 students (85 girls and 94 boys) from 5 educational areas of Isfahan were selected using multi-stage sampling procedure. The method of data collection was semi-structural interview and data Analysis was done through descriptive analysis، variance analysis and paired t-test. The results showed that the difference in the career aspirations as well as the differences among different age groups and genders were significant (P<0/05). Furthermore، although in both genders the development of aspirations was progressive، the rate of development in girls was higher than boys.