SOCIAL VARIABLES AS DETERMINANTS OF CARREER CHOICE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IN ONDO STATE, NIGERIA

Finding success and achieving a career in human endeavor is not an easy task, but in reality it is a tough decision that cannot be taken lightly. This entails a lot of determination and discipline endeavor to achieve this. It is evident that many students are in the continued existence in such discipline lead to poor performance and high dropout rate. Most of the adolescents coming into the university to study do not have flair for physical education as a chosen course to be studied. There is also the feeling that physical education is meant for teachers. The understanding of people is that those who offer physical education are academically inferior with low intelligent quotient. Descriptive survey research design using validated and structured questionnaire, was adopted. Simple random sampling technique was used to pick the schools, students both male and female. One thousand four hundred and forty participants were involved in the study. Reliable coefficient of r=0.75 was obtained for the instruments using Cronbach Alpha. Data were analyzed using multiple regressions to test the hypotheses at 00.5 significant levels. It was discovered that the relative contributions of social variables among students: parental influence (?=1.211), peer influence (?=1.141), gender differences (?=1.055) made relative contributions to the dependent variable.