Intelligence and Social Background as Related to Psychological Cost-Benefit in Career Choice

The relationships between a set of proposed constructs, psychological cost-benefit-profit with regard to continued education, and the traditional background factors, intelligence, social background, in career choice models were tested on the post-high school choice using data from 173 students. The results showed that social background but not intelligence had significant correlations with the proposed constructs, especially for girls. The mother's education, rather than the father's, was the most important social background factor. Certain sex differences and interaction effects were indicated.