Incidencia de la orientación vocacional en la elección de la carrera de psicología en estudiantes de la Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

The next research work entitled "Incidence of Vocational Guidance in students for choosing the career of Psychology at the University of Cuenca" was developed in the city of Cuenca - Ecuador and aimed to determine the relationship between Vocational Guidance received by students and their choice of Psychology Career. This research corresponds to a quantitative descriptive study with an observational design of a transversal nature by using the survey technique for data collection whose instrument was the guide to basic questions structured, which was applied to a sample of 255 Psychology Career students. This research came to determine that 30.6% of respondents from a total of 37.6% of the data considered valid, said that little or nothing helped them Vocational Guidance that they received, when deciding on the course of Psychology; also 71.4% of respondents said that they followed this career because they felt attracted to it.