Career Commitment Among Continuing and Exiting Seminary Students
To study the relationship between commitment and staying in or leaving the seminary, the author administered a questionnaire to a reconstituted student body of 93 dropouts and 124 stay-ins from Lakeside (a pseudonym) Catholic diocesan seminary. The questionnaire included measures of two kinds of com...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1977
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1977, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-58 |
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| Summary: | To study the relationship between commitment and staying in or leaving the seminary, the author administered a questionnaire to a reconstituted student body of 93 dropouts and 124 stay-ins from Lakeside (a pseudonym) Catholic diocesan seminary. The questionnaire included measures of two kinds of commitment, intrinsic and extrinsic. Stay-ins were generally more committed than dropouts but dropouts tended to be more extrinsically committed than stay-ins. Particularly, dropouts seemed to enter training for the priesthood earlier than did stay-ins, and mothers of dropouts seemed to have encouraged the vocation more than mothers of stay-ins. Demographic variables and community influence could not account foj differences in commitment. The findings were interpreted as underscoring the importance of attribution of freedom of choice to one's self for continuance in a career leading to the status of priest. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709836 |