Analysis of Professional Interests of High School Students

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of professional interests of high school students and to analyze them in terms of various variables. Study group of the study consists of 448 high school students receiving education in the province of Nevsehir. “Professional interest scale” was used as data collection tool in the study. In the analysis of the data, t test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Tukey’s multiple comparison test were used. At the end of the study, the level of professional interests of the high school students was found to be higher than mean, and it was found that there were significant differences between the groups according to the variables such as gender, the level of knowing themselves, how they describe themselves, and their knowledge about the profession to be chosen.