The effect of resilience, hopelessness and sectoral attitudes of the students having tourism education at universities to their choices: Akdeniz University sample

This study has been made to determine the effects of resilience, hopelessness and sectoral attitudes of the students having tourism education at universities to their career choices.In accordance with this purpose, theoretical part of the study has been made from the literature related with the subject.The survey results have been analyzed in the computer environment by SPSS 17.0 software.The samples of this study were the students having tourism education in 2010-2011 academic year at Akdeniz University, school of tourism and hotel managemen.Consequently, sectoral attitudes of the students have an effect on their career choices. Negative relationship with the resilience factors was obtained from the analysis that were made to determine the effects of resilience to career choice.Although, no relationship seen between the career choice and hopelessness scale factors and between career choice and motivation loss of the students having tourism education, an inverse correlation determined between the future expectations and hope.