<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"><identifier identifierType="DOI">10.7910/DVN/RHODBW</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Todor, Ioana</creatorName><givenName>Ioana</givenName><familyName>Todor</familyName><affiliation>1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Igna, Cornel</creatorName><givenName>Cornel</givenName><familyName>Igna</familyName><nameIdentifier SchemeURI="https://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-2197-8900</nameIdentifier><affiliation>1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>Initial Motivations for Choosing Teaching as a Career: A Qualitative Study among First-Year Students in Preschool and Primary Education</title></titles><publisher>Harvard Dataverse</publisher><publicationYear>2026</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Social Sciences</subject></subjects><contributors><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Todor, Ioana</contributorName><givenName>Ioana</givenName><familyName>Todor</familyName><affiliation>1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia</affiliation></contributor></contributors><dates><date dateType="Submitted">2026-03-29</date><date dateType="Updated">2026-03-30</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset"/><sizes><size>31947</size></sizes><formats><format>application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet</format></formats><version>1.0</version><rightsList><rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess"/><rights rightsURI="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">This is the Dataset fot the study entitled Initial Motivations for Choosing Teaching as a Career: A Qualitative Study among First-Year Students in Preschool and Primary Education</description><description descriptionType="Other">This dataset was anonymized prior to deposit.</description></descriptions><geoLocations/></resource>