Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Hopes And Fears Related To Education, Occupation, And Family : A Study On Primary-school Students In Pangalengan

To describe the hopes and the fears of the students experienced the 2009’s earth quake in Pangalengan, this study examined 173 Pangalengan’s primary-students (male: 74 students; female: 99 students) who experienced that natural disaster. Applying the semi-structured interview from Nurmi et al. (1990), the analysis was mainly directed on the estimated-ages and the extension years, related their hopes and fears for their future education, occupation, and family. In general the estimated-ages for the hopes and the fears and the extension-years of both showed a similar tendency with the exploration and the commitment of the individual (Kalakoski & Nurmi, 1998), that the focus of the students would go from education, followed by occupation, and family. Related to education and to occupation, the students of grade 1-4 anticipated their hopes farther than their fears, the students of grade 5-6 had the opposite tendency. Related to family the students of all grades anticipated their hopes closer than their fears. The extension-years related to their three domains of future life that were not in line with the goal’s contents confirmed that their goals were not yet realistic. The students’ sociocultural-environment-influences in Pangalengan were reflected on the extension-years of their hopes and their fears, as well as on the contents of the students’ hopes and fears related to the three domains of future life. However, it should be further examined if those extension-years and the contents of the students’ hopes and fears were affected by their experiences of the 2009’s earth quake.