Predicting of Satisfaction with the Field of Study and Career Future Based on Family, Career and Individual Factors in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Students

Because universities face a large number of volunteers, the competition for access to higher field in higher education is increasingly growing. Therefore, there is a need for effective research to identify the factors that influence the choice of the field of study and career future of volunteers. In this research, family, career and individual factors as predictors of satisfaction with the field of study and career future of medical students were investigated.

 Materials & Methods:

This study is descriptive of the kind of correlation. The Population included 340 students of Mashhad University of medical sciences, who were selected by a stratified sampling method. A satisfaction questionnaire on the field of study and career future of the University of Minnesota and the questionnaire of factors affecting the field of study and career future were used to collect information. The validity of the instruments was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis and reliability of them by Cronbach's coefficient. For analyzing the research variables, AMOS and SPSS version 22 software's were used.

The results of multiple regression analyses showed that career and individual factors were the strongest positive and significant predictors of student satisfaction with the field of study and career future respectively, while the family factor did not play a significant role in student satisfaction with the field of study and career future.

Findings indicate that not only career factor, but individual factor are essential elements of satisfaction with the field of study and career future of the students' medical sciences.