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…

The college and career readiness movement figures prominently in the nation's educational reform and policies, including strategies to increase graduation rates among disadvantaged students in urban schools. As part of a multi-pronged approach to help youth transition to post-secondary education and the workforce, the present study evaluated a new…

This study examined the contribution of perceptions of discrimination, career planning, and vocational identity to the school engagement experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants among a sample of 125 Cape Verdean high school students. Perceived ethnic discrimination was found to moderate the association between both vocational…

Results of the California Psychological Inventory and Career Development Inventory for 200 college students indicated that planful competence in career development is related to greater realization of one's potential and social adjustment. Mature attitudes toward career planning are related to extroversion and a positive orientation to social…

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…

College students (n=186) completed the Career Development Inventory and Strong Interest Inventory (SII), viewed a video about SII interpretation, and completed follow-up tests. Attitudes toward career planning and exploration predicted how much and how well they used interest inventory results. Career choice readiness predicted neither…

A study was designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the adult Career Concerns Inventory, which assesses career concerns of adults of any age and occupation. Subjects, 4 male and 165 female students (ages 23 to 62) enrolled in the graduate nursing program at a southern university, were administered the adult Career Concerns…

Construct validity of the six scales of the Career Development Inventory was investigated with 312 tenth-grade students. The subscales were found to demonstrate adequate discriminant validity except for certain cognitive subscales. (Author/CP)

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…

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…

The reliability, validity, and utility of various measures of career development as they are used with postsecondary deaf students were investigated. Career development was defined as the students' knowledge about various career areas, and secondly, the quality of the students' present career decision. Four commercially available measures of…