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The Use of a Structured Career Development Group to Increase Career Identity: An Exploratory Study.
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Anderson, Keith J. – Journal of Career Development, 1995
Undergraduates in group career counseling wrote essays exploring resource awareness, resource use, life roles, values, self-awareness, and empowerment and held discussions of career maturity and identity. They formulated action plans to work on the strengths and weaknesses identified. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Group Counseling, Self Concept
A Six-Scale, Two-Factor Measure of Adolescent Career or Vocational Maturity.
Super, Donald E.; Thompson, Albert S. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1979
Describes the Career Development Inventory, Form III, which provides data on its content, reliability, factor structure, and validity. Uses of the CDI in evaluation studies, in surveys for planning career education, and in individual and group counseling are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Development
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Work Values and the Vocational Maturity of Vocational-Technical Students
Gade, Eldon M.; Peterson, Glen – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1977
Compared with men, women were found to be vocationally more mature and their intrinsic work values were more related to vocational maturity. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Higher Education, Research Projects, Sex Differences
The Ability of Career Maturity Indicators to Predict Interest Score Differentiation, Consistency, and Elevation.
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Miner, Claire Usher; Osborne, W. Larry; Jaeger, Richard M. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1997
Uses regression analysis on career development measures to examine whether career maturity indicators are predictive of interest consistency, differentiation, and score elevation. Results indicate that interest consistency and score elevation were weakly predicted by the measure; no relationship existed between the attitudinal and cognitive…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, College Students, Higher Education
Career Maturity Levels of Male Intercollegiate Varsity Athletes.
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Smallman, Edward; Sowa, Claudia J. – Career Development Quarterly, 1996
Examined the readiness of male intercollegiate varsity athletes (n=288) to make career-related decisions. Research questions compared students participating in revenue- and nonrevenue-producing sports as well as Caucasian and minority student athletes on eight dimensions of career maturity measured by the Career Development Inventory. Implications…
Descriptors: Athletes, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
An Objective Multidimensional Measure of Vocational Maturity: Development and Validation.
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Forrest, David J.; And Others
Because existing experimental measures of vocational maturity were too narrow or difficult to administer and score, the Career Development Inventory (CDI) was developed to evaluate the effects of a computer-based vocational guidance system on the vocational development of high school students, and early research suggests that the CDI promises to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Methodology for the Evaluation of Career Decision Making Skills in Rural Schools. Final Report.
Malheur Intermediate Education District, Vale, OR. – 1977
As part of a larger program of a consortium of six rural Oregon counties (SIXCO), a study was conducted to select instruments which provided a measure of career decision-making skills and to utilize these instruments on populations of students who received varying types of guidance processes in their school programs. Of the twenty-nine instruments…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development