Perhaps more educated people are more happy with their career and thus more reluctant to change it?
Or just more invested in it—if you’ve spent several years acquiring a degree in a topic, you may be quite reluctant to go do something completely different.
For future studies, might be worth rephrasing this item in a way where this doesn’t act as a confounder for the results? I’d expect people in their early twenties to answer it quite differently than people in their early forties.
Or just more invested in it—if you’ve spent several years acquiring a degree in a topic, you may be quite reluctant to go do something completely different.
For future studies, might be worth rephrasing this item in a way where this doesn’t act as a confounder for the results? I’d expect people in their early twenties to answer it quite differently than people in their early forties.
Good point!
>I’d expect people in their early twenties to answer it quite differently than people in their early forties.
I’d have expected this as well but according to the data age doesn’t make a difference when it comes to answering the career item (r = -.04, p = .56).
Huh! That’s surprising.