Student Part—Time Jobs: Relevant or Nonrelevant

Relatedness between jobs and academic majors: its relationship to academic involvement of college students

“…The results showed that students working in related jobs were more committed to academic work than their counterparts. This finding is consistent with the findings of Hay et al (1970) and Van de Water and Augenblick (1987). The study also investigated whether the effect of working in related jobs may interact with the effects of working part-time/full-time and working on/off campus.…”

“…Previous studies either used a set of posterior criteria to determine whether student jobs were related (Hay et al, 1970), or simply assumed that the link between two types of student jobs (work-study, university employment) and student majors existed because employing departments were usually encouraged to relate available jobs to the student's educational program (Bella & Huba, 1982). This study took a different approach by having student respondents themselves determine whether their jobs were related to their academic majors or not.…”

“…With regard to sample, two studies (Hay et al, 1970;Bella & Huba, 1982) used singleinstitutional data, and only one study (Hay et al, 1970) included off-campus jobs for analysis. With regard to methods, none of these studies took into account other dimensions of student employment that may affect the results, such as working time and location.…”

“…These studies all set out to answer the following question: did students with relevant jobs achieve higher GPA than students with non-relevant jobs? Hay et al (1970) conducted the first study. Participants included 891 full-time freshmen and sophomores at one university who filled out a questionnaire asking them to briefly describe their jobs.…”

The Work-Study Experience Of Indigenous Undergraduates In Taiwan

“…However, in the same study, 81.6% of the students indicated that their work experience was helpful to their future career development, while only 16.9% felt that their work experience had not been beneficial to their career development. Callender and Wilkinson (2003) found that on-campus part-time work as a research or administrative assistant does tend to increase a student's Research has shown that working more than 15 hours per week at a job that is not related to one's major has a negative influence on academic performance (Hay, Evans, & Lindsay, 1970;Ma & Wooster, 1979). It has also been found that many students think that taking a part-time job has a negative influence on grades and attendance (Curtis & Shani, 2002).…”