New insights on motives for choosing social work as a career: answers from students and newly qualified social workers

被引：2
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作者：
Petersen, Anna Charlotta [1 ]
机构：
[1] Orebro Univ, Sch Law Psychol & Social Work, S-70182 Orebro, Sweden
来源：
SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION | 2024年 / 43卷 / 03期
关键词：
Social work student; newly qualified social workers; motives; social work education; Sweden; MSW STUDENTS; EARLY-LIFE; MOTIVATIONS; VALUES; WANTS;
D O I：
10.1080/02615479.2022.2139823
中图分类号：
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号：
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要：
This study examines the motives behind the choice of social work as a career, and using the vocabulary of motives and folk logic as supporting theoretical concepts looks at how these motives can be understood. The study draws on data collected in Sweden through a questionnaire administrated to 583 newly qualified social workers and from written descriptions by 295 first-term social work students. The results show that there are several motives for undertaking social work as a career: altruistic ones, professional strategic ones, motives founded in personal experiences, and motives related to the individual's personal characteristics. The last-mentioned motive is a new discovery in research, while the others have been well established for some time.
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页码：702 / 716
页数：15
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