Vocational Identity Statutes and Career Adaptability Skill among Technical and Vocational Education Students in Nigeria

Abstract

This study was aimed at investigating relationship between vocational identity statutes and career adaptability skill among technical and vocational education (TVE) students in colleges of education in Nigeria.A sample of 603 technical and vocational education (TVE) students selected from six colleges of education of education in Nigeria participated in this study. Survey design was adopted in this study with structured questionnaire for data collection. Bivariate and linear multiple regression were used for analyses, and the results indicated that the relationship between achievement statute of vocational identity and career adaptability skill among TVE students was positively significant, followed by moratorium statute. Achievement statute accounted for about 20% of variance explained in career adaptability skill, and moratorium accounted for 2.5%.However, the relationship between foreclosure and career adaptability skill among TVE students was negatively not significant. While that between diffusion and career adaptability skill among TVE students was negatively significant. The regression model fits the data at .001 level of significance. The predictor variables collectively accounted for about 22% of variance explained in career adaptability skill among TVE students in colleges of education in Nigeria. Limitations, implication and conclusion of the findings were discussed.