Dogmatism and the Influence of Sources of Advice for Students' Choice of Accountancy as a Career

Following the theory underlying dogmatism authors hypothesized that there would be significant differences in the influence of nine sources of career advice between highly dogmatic and low dogmatic students' choice of accounting as a career. For 72 accounting students as subjects there were significant differences between highly dogmatic and low dogmatic students in the influence of five sources of career advice. These five sources were viewed as ‘authoritative-type’ sources, while the other four for which there were no significant differences, the sources were perhaps viewed by the students as non-authoritative.