• Priyanka
• Dr. Meenakshi Sharma

Abstract It is said that a person cannot sustain life without having aims and aspirations. The study compares the occupational aspirations among orphanage reared and home-reared secondary school students. The study covers 100 adolescents, including 50 orphanages reared and 50 home-reared school students chosen from Delhi through purposive sampling. The occupational Aspiration Scale developed and standardized by J. S. Grewal has been used in the study. Mann- Whitney U Test has been used to assess the data. The study revealed no significant difference in the occupational aspiration and the idealistic expression of occupational aspiration between orphanage reared and home reared secondary school students (p>.05). Only the dimension realistic expression of occupational aspiration, home-reared students have significantly higher than orphanage-reared students (p<.05). Concerning gender, it revealed that there was no significant difference in occupational aspiration and idealistic expression of occupational aspiration (p>.05), whereas a significant difference found in the realistic expression of occupational aspiration between male and female (p<.01).

Keywords: Occupational aspiration, Gender, Secondary School Students, Orphanage Reared, Home-Reared, Idealistic and Realistic expression.

"Comparison of the Occupational Aspiration among Orphanage Reared and Home Reared Secondary School Students", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.a133-a139, July-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107020.pdf

"Comparison of the Occupational Aspiration among Orphanage Reared and Home Reared Secondary School Students", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no. ppa133-a139, July-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107020.pdf