RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL EXPECTATIONS AND CHOICE OF COLLEGE MAJOR

Abstract

Choosing a college major is an important decision that can determine your future career and personal growth. This study will develop hypotheses based on a psychoanalytic approach to analyze and interpret the respondent's case.

The results of the literature study include several results related to decision making and career planning. Muslimah, F. (2019), in her research discusses individual abilities in making career decisions based on cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects and identifies several career interventions that can help determine career decisions.

Abdullah, S. (2019) focuses on assessing problems in student career decision making and identifying students' needs to understand why they need education and work after graduation, seek and use information, seek alternatives, choose goals, and make plans.

Lingmei Cai, Xin Wang, ‘‘Prediction and Influencing Factors of College Students' Career Planning Based on Big Data Mining‘‘ discusses the use of the theory and method of psychology to study college students' career planning and the importance of cognitive variables of career development in shaping the formation of career planning.

Overall, the research mentioned in the question is grounded in the existing literature on decision-making, career development, and the psychoanalytic approach, and it aims to contribute to this body of literature by developing hypotheses based on the psychoanalytic approach to guide the analysis and interpretation of the respondent's case.

keywords: college major selection, psychoanalytic approach, career decision-making, career development, cognitive variables in career planning