ABSTRACT

This descriptive study attempts to explain the condition of vocational identity in students who come from military families and choose a career as a soldier. Its population is a student of 6 cohorts at the University of Jenderal Achmad Yani who are interested to enroll in the program Pa PK (Career Army Officer) and Mabea Pa PK (Officer Career Student Scholarship. Estimated number of population is 72 people, with the number of samples are 40 people using a snowball sampling technique. Data taken by trained five observers and distributing questionnaires vocational identity. The questionnaire reliability was .915 (n = 105). The results of Kendall-Tau correlation test showed that the correlation between the dimensions of exploration and commitment to vocational identity was .865 (x = 0.01) and .849 (x = 0.01). The test results of the correlation between sub-dimensions of vocational identity moves from .230 to .744. Vocational identity categorization results showed most participants as the tendency of achievement (57.5%), with the main weakness lies in unprepared participants to make decisions earlier, understanding the global nature of the desired career, a new planning and preparation refers to the physical only and limited participants' self-projection of its future.

Keywords: Vocational identity, exploration, commitment