Attempted to replicate study determining relationship between appropriateness of career choices and career maturity test scores in rural ninth grade students (N=112) using Goal Selection scale of Career Maturity Inventory Competence Test and American College Testing Program Career Planning Program. Found two career maturity measures correlated…

Investigated whether a meaningful relationship existed between an attitudinal measure of career maturity and a measure of career maturity reflecting job performance-related behavioral competencies in African-American high school students (n=74). Only modest relationships were found between several career maturity attitudes and behavioral measures.…

Six predictor variables (gender, race, disadvantage, postsecondary plans, vocational education, career indecision) were 75% accurate in identifying career maturity and immaturity among 90 economically disadvantaged rural ninth graders. Career indecision and race were most important for career immaturity, race and disadvantage for career maturity.…

Demonstrates difficulty in proving medium-term and long-term effects of career maturity on career adjustment and the connection with research and theoretical shortcomings. Presents empirical evidence supporting self-concept orientation in choice of present major and realization of preferences acts as mediating factors between career development…

Compared 48 adolescent cancer patients with matched group of 40 healthy adolescents on career maturity progress and tendency to foreclose on career choice. Found few differences as function of health status alone. Career maturity differed between two groups as function of age. Adolescent cancer patients showed greater tendency to prematurely…

Applied Campbell and Fiske's multitrait, multimethod analysis to scores from 3 measures of career development (Attitude Scale of Career Maturity Inventory, Vocational Preference Inventory, and Decision-Making Scale of Career Development Inventory) completed by 129 college students. Table of multitrait, multimethod correlation coefficients for the…

Argues that career maturity gives insufficient attention to the contexts of time and culture. Suggests the use of recent advances in developmental theory as an alternative for understanding developmental transitions. Cites findings from a study highlighting how individual differences and contextual factors contribute to the school-to-work…

Evaluates the career maturity and career decision-making attributional style of high school students in an ethnically diverse, southeastern urban school system. Results indicate a significant, positive relationship between career maturity and an optimistic attributional style. Young men perceived more control over their career decision making than…

Examines relationships between leisure behavior and occupational identity in college students (N=109). Results indicate significant relationships among thinking and contemplating, ethical leisure behavior, and occupational identity. Students more involved in intellectual and creative leisure activities were more advanced in occupational identity…

Ethnic identity and vocational maturity were assessed in four cohorts of 466 majority and 175 minority high school students in Quebec. Results show minorities increased in ethnic identity over time and matured significantly earlier than majority students, but fell somewhat behind in vocational maturity by the 11th grade. (SK)

The career maturity of 55 academically at-risk students in an integrated career and academic program was strongly influenced by their beliefs regarding overcoming obstacles and peer equality. Beliefs about what seems necessary for happiness and about differences among colleges and occupations also influenced career development attitudes. (Contains…

This study investigated differences in vocational attitude maturity and self-concept among Holland's six vocational categories. There were significant differences in vocational attitude maturity and self-concept among students in the six vocational categories. There was a significant relationship between vocational attitude maturity and…

A further understanding of the relationship between self-concept, race, or sex and career maturity was sought. The results indicated that self-concept seems to have differential impact on career maturity, depending on the race and sex of the participant. (Author)

The degree of convergent validity among four methods of identifying vocational preferences is assessed via the decision theoretic paradigm. Vocational preferences identified by Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI), a rating procedure, and ranking were compared with preferences identified from a policy-capturing model developed from an…

Theorizes that there are two primary dimensions or continua along which delays or dysfunctions may occur in career decision making: the decided/undecided state and the decisiveness/indecisiveness trait. Suggest that the combination of the two dimensions yields four distinct diagnostic categories which demonstrate the need for differential…