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Rogers, Mary E.; Creed, Peter A.; Praskova, Anna – Journal of Career Development, 2018
We surveyed Australian adolescents and parents to test differences and congruence in perceptions of adolescent career development tasks (career planning, exploration, certainty, and world-of-work knowledge) and vocational identity. We found that, for adolescents (N = 415), career development tasks (not career exploration) explained 48% of the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes, Career Development, Vocational Interests
Jones, Hedy J.; Newman, Isadore – 1993
The effectiveness of using the Perry Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development (PSIED) was assessed with vocationally undecided students. Erwin's 1981 Scale of Intellectual Development (SID) was administered to 290 vocationally undecided college students (131 males and 156 females ranging aged 17 to 42 years with a mean age of 20.2 years) at…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students
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Johnson, Richard P.; Riker, Harold C. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1981
The construct of occupational maturity can be extended to create a concept of readiness to retire--retirement maturity. Two significant factors affecting retirement maturity are retirement work plans and retirement residence plans. The Career Development Inventory, Adult seems to be a valuable tool for preretirement counselors. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Counseling Techniques, Life Style, Maturity Tests
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Crosby, Richard – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1975
Three hundred twelve Kentucky trade and industrial juniors' mental maturity was compared to data supplied with the California Mental Maturity Test. Aspects of vocational maturity significantly related to mental maturity measures for the group, and factors of mental maturity significantly related to aspects of their vocational maturity were also…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Factor Analysis
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Patton, Wendy; Watson, Mark B.; Creed, Peter A. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
The present study investigates the career maturity of 1090 high school students in Years 8 to 12 in Australia (n = 656) and South Africa (n = 434). Scores on the Australian version of the "Career Development Inventory" were analysed. While a developmental explanation for career maturity was supported, gender differences between countries…
Descriptors: Career Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, High School Students