Resumen de The Importance of Work, Family and Leisure among Girls Finishing Compulsory Education

M. Teresa Padilla-Carmona

• The purpose of this study was to examine the profiles of attribution of importance to three life-roles (work, family and leisure) of 185 adolescent girls about to finalize their period of compulsory education and, therefore, to face an extremely relevant decision concerning their future. After the data collection (questionnaire, self-image inventory, teachers¿ and families¿ appraisals of performance, marks registration), a cluster analysis was conducted in order to identify groups of responses among participants. Results indicated that girls grant a different level of importance to life-roles, or to different combinations between them. Three groups can be identified: one group of girls who grant a great importance to both work and family roles; another who appraise work and leisure highly, giving little importance to the family role; and, finally, a third group of girls that seem to be essentially concerned with taking care of the family and being mothers.