ABSTRACT

Students’ degree choices are often made without an achieved vocational identity. In fact, some students perceive a discrepancy between their ambitions and their university course choices. In this preliminary study, I employed the interpretative phenomenological analysis approach to study the experiences of two master’s degree economics students enrolled in two Italian universities. The aim was to understand the students’ perception of emotional costs associated with the discrepancy between their vocational identity and their university degree choices. Five themes, regret, disappointment, selfishness, the influence of family/teachers and job opportunities emerged from the interpretation. The emotional cost of wrong degree choices hindered the students’ process of overcoming their psychosocial crises. Finally, recommendations were made for providing counselling services in secondary schools.

摘要

学生通常在没有获得职业认同的情况下选择学位。事实上，一些学生认为他们的抱负和大学课程选择之间存在差异。在这项初步研究中，我采用解释现象学分析方法来研究就读于两所意大利大学的两名经济学硕士学位学生的经历。目的是了解学生对与其职业身份和大学学位选择之间的差异相关的情感成本的看法。解读中出现了遗憾、失望、自私、家庭/老师的影响、工作机会五个主题。错误学位选择的情感成本阻碍了学生克服心理危机的过程。最后，