Factors influencing uptake of career counselling services among university students in Nairobi City County, Kenya

Newa, Elsie Opiyo; Kathungu, Beatrice; Wasanga, Christine

doi:10.57040/asshj.v2i1.36

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“…These results were in accordance to Amani and Mkumbo (2018), who asserted that children were more likely to pursue fulfilling or profitable occupations if their parents were having financial difficulties or are not happy in their jobs. The findings, however, were in conflict with a study by Mwaa (2016), which found that parental socioeconomic factors had no impact on student's awareness of careers since parents would motivate their children to pursue the careers of their preference by providing appropriate educational resources and opportunities for their career growth.…”

Section: Family Determinants Of Career Awareness Among Studentscontrasting

confidence: 79%

Family Determinants of Career Awareness among Students in Public Secondary Schools in Meru South Sub-County, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya

2023

JEP

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The aim of this study was to investigate the family determinants of career awareness among students in public secondary schools in Meru South Sub County. Career awareness is a sign of one's level of democracy and personal freedom in determining their professional development. Career awareness equips learners with a holistic understanding of their talents, personality, interest and capability in preparation for their future endeavours. Uncertainty drive students towards making wrong career choices and as result feel frustrated at a job they had never wished for. Despite the schools having career teachers and Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) providing career guidance, students portray unawareness on occupation matters. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample size of 368 respondents comprising of 12 deans of studies, 12 guidance and counselling teachers,12 form three and 12 form four parents' representatives, 8 principals and 312 form three and four students participated in the study. The study established that family determinants had an influence on the students' career awareness, especially on the career information. The socioeconomic status of the parents, career path of the family, parental career advice and elder siblings were found to have a great influence on career awareness. However, parent's level of education was of low significance on career awareness. Parents and guardians should be sensitized on the importance of career awareness to their children.

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confidence: 79%

Family Determinants of Career Awareness among Students in Public Secondary Schools in Meru South Sub-County, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya

2023

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“…§ Technical Training: In a calculated attempt to address biting youth unemployment and wide spread of deviance in the country, governments at various levels established technical training schools. Some renew the existing ones to meet the challenges of skill acquisition for the myriad unemployed youths (Blankenship, 2015;Verchueren, 2020;Newa, Kathungu & Wagarga, 2021). § Challenges of Social Security Scheme: As explained by Kotiikaff, Solman and Moeller (2015), the following are the challenges of social security in Nigeria (Makuya & Salum, 2021).…”

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Social security as a panacea to kidnapping in South-West Nigeria: A theoretical review

Oluwajenyo

Akporaro

Abdullahi

2022

ASSHJ

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There are various security challenges facing societies around the world. Kidnapping is one challenge that undermines peace and stability in the globe. Kidnapping leads to death of victims, bodily harm, loss of properties and worsening economic conditions. To tackle kidnapping, social security is one valuable measure put in place. However, social security is bedeviled with challenges like corruption, mismanagement, lack of political will, ethnicity, bad policy and programmes. Therefore, this paper addresses the challenges of social security and kidnapping in South-West, Nigeria. The study intends to fill the gap created by shortage of scholarly materials to explore challenges of social security and kidnapping in South-West Nigeria. The data were obtained secondarily through the content analysis of peer reviewed journals, edited textbooks, and credible online resources. It anchors on social control theory by Travis Hirsch. Findings revealed that corruption, lack of political will, ethnicity, religiosity and other challenges are working against social security drives to combat kidnapping in Nigeria. The paper recommends effective youth empowerment schemes to bring to the shore the potentials among the youths. This paper will be useful by improving knowledge on the social security and kidnapping, improve the extant literature on social security and kidnapping, the policy-makers, employment of labour, organized private sectors and researchers in the field of social and management sciences will find it beneficial.

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“…Mass media has been acknowledged for carrying out certain essential functions in the society. These include informing and shaping public opinion about issues of concern (Peterson, 2006;Owolabi, 2023;Newa et al, 2021;Chukwuma, 2022). Further, mass media is increasingly being utilised as an avenue for targeting behaviour change among audiences (Emojong' & Korir, 2022).…”

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Gain or loss frames: An assessment of vernacular radio programme in framing of risk about type 2 diabetes

Misiani

2023

Adv. Res. Med. Health Sci

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Research has demonstrated that gain framing of risk about diseases is more preferable to loss framing. People are more likely to take preventive measure since gain frames emphasize the benefits of adopting suggested behaviour as opposed to loss frames which focus on the consequences of failing to adopt suggested behaviour. Accordingly, this paper proposes to assess how a leading vernacular radio station framed type 2 diabetes risks in terms of gain or loss frames. This was done by examining recorded audio from a radio health programme dabbed ‘Miya Ngima.’ Type 2 diabetes, accounts for about 90% of all diabetes cases in Kenya. The diseases’ prevalence is particularly on the rise besides low awareness levels. This is despite various programmes put in place towards reducing the diseases’ prevalence rates and increasing awareness; hence the basis of this study. The study used Framing Theory’s in understanding how messages are constructed by Miya Ngima programme. Descriptive research designs were applied in the study. The study population consisted of 13 Miya Ngima programmes and one Miya Ngima programme host. Purposive sampling was used to select 2 Miya Ngima programmes on type 2 diabetes and 1 Miya Ngima programme host. Structured interviews were used to collect data from Miya Ngima programme host. Coding sheets were used to get data from Miya Ngima programmes. Qualitative data was subjected to thematic analysis. Results were presented in text formats. The findings revealed that; Miya Ngima did not frame its messages targeting prevention of type 2 diabetes appropriately.

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Factors influencing uptake of career counselling services among university students in Nairobi City County, Kenya

Cited by 3 publications

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Family Determinants of Career Awareness among Students in Public Secondary Schools in Meru South Sub-County, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya

Family Determinants of Career Awareness among Students in Public Secondary Schools in Meru South Sub-County, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya

Social security as a panacea to kidnapping in South-West Nigeria: A theoretical review

Gain or loss frames: An assessment of vernacular radio programme in framing of risk about type 2 diabetes

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