期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：1998
卷号：7
期号：4-5 (36-37)
页码：731-746
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The objective of this research was to determine students’ motives for enrolling in faculties of economics and electrical engineering and testing whether there are major differences in the motives influencing the choice of one or the other faculty. Two hypotheses were put forward: H1: There is a great difference between the motives for enrolling in the faculty of economics and faculty of electrical engineering. The orientation towards the faculty of economics is more under the influence of personal benefit, while the decision to study electrical engineering is dominantly the result of hedonistic motives (motives of satisfaction). H2: Students’ satisfaction with the faculty of electrical engineering is at higher level than that of the students of economics, due to its hedonist origins. The research was conducted on a stratified proportional sample of 801 students from Faculties of Economics in Zagreb, Rijeka and Osijek, and 297 students from Faculties of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb and Split. The study was carried out in groups, by means of a structured questionnaire, during lectures, by third-year students of the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. The results obtained supported the first hypothesis, but the second only in part. Students’ motives for entering the faculties of electrical engineering are dominantly hedonistic in character – satisfaction with the subject of study and their future job, interest in this field of science and because of their friends who enrolled in the same faculty, while the dominant motives of economics’ students were those of personal benefit – prospects for employment, higher salaries and interesting job expectations.
