Avaliação da orientação profissional grupal em adolescentes do último ano do ensino médio, com foco na maturidade e na indecisão vocacional

Abstract

This longitudinal study, with an experimental character and a correlational design, aimed to evaluate the influence of a professional orientation process in group on vocational maturity and in the indecision for professional choice of students. In order to do this, it was sought to observe whether there is a correlation between those two constructs (maturity and indecision) and socio-demographic variables (gender, type of school, professional experience, psychotherapy); to carry out the comparison between the experimental and control groups; to compare the results measured in different times of the investigation. The sample consisted of 78 students from the third year of high school from three different schools in the city of Seropédica - RJ, which were divided into control and experimental groups. The experimental group attended professional orientation intervention meetings for eight weeks. All students had answered a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Professional Choice Maturity Scale - EMEP and the Vocational Indecision Scale - EIV, before and after the intervention period. The results ofretest showed that the experimental group had increased their level of maturity and had reduced their level of indecision, when compared to the control group, in the same time period, indicating that the participation in the meetings of professional orientation helped the process of professional orientation in the end from highschool. Thus, the hypothesis raised at the beginning of the research was corroborated.