Explored validity and reliability of Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI) using data from 104 graduate nursing students. Findings support construct validity and reliability of ACCI. Concluded that, although the ACCI seemed to be psychometrically sound, the use of other measures in conjunction with it would be recommended practice in assessing…

Evaluated intercultural validity of Holland's concepts of consistency and congruence by testing personality types and career readiness among Pakistani college students (N=376) using Self-Directed Search (SDS) and Career Readiness Questionnaire. Found no relationship between consistency in SDS codes and career readiness; some support for…

Compared employed adults' (N=136) career concerns to vocational development tasks in Super's model of maintenance career stage. Found results indicated adaptation not maturation propelled development. Results support posited renewal task which deals with midlife reassessment of career choice and commitment. (Author/CM)

The purpose of this study was to examine the career planning of university student athletes and relationships between their career planning and athletic and student role identities. Two retrospective in-depth interviews were held with four male and four female university student athletes. Participants entered university with vague or nonexistent…

Two studies, the second essentially a replication of the first, were conducted to clarify the meaning of vocational maturity in female career development. The sample consisted of 55 college women in the first study and 145 women in the second study. Correlational analysis examined the relationship of vocational maturity, using the Career Maturity…

Examined the relationship between decision-making styles and vocational maturity with a focus on the current discrepancy between research and theory regarding the utility of rational decision making. Results were consistent across 177 community college students, in that a reliance upon the rational style was the only significant decision-making…

Measured career attitude maturity of football and basketball scholarship athletes (N=122) and nonathlete male college students (N=80) using the Career Maturity Inventory. Found that athletes were significantly lower in career attitude maturity than nonathletes, with 48% expecting to play professional sports, compared to an anticipated 2%. Found no…

Examined effects of a life-career development course on university students (N=74). The treatment was based on a comprehensive counseling model of change agent career decision making. The participants became significantly more rational, more certain of their major and career choices, and more crystallized in their vocational self-concept. (JAC)

Administered an instrument containing self-evaluation and development, career-awareness, career decision-making, employment-seeking, and work-effectiveness items to 939 grade 12 students. The results indicated that females obtained significantly higher mean scores than males; Advanced Level students obtained significantly higher mean scores than…

Examined high school students' (N=240) awareness of internal vocational information useful in career decision making and examined the effect of a vocational awareness activity. Results indicated tenth graders were unstable in self-perceived internal information relating to career choice. Appendix contains the Vocational Awareness Scale. (JAC)

Computed four derivatives of the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and correlated them with other indices of career maturity for 138 community college students. Accuracy in estimating one's SDS profile correlated significantly with five other maturity indices, but the other derivatives tended not to relate to other career maturity criteria. (JAC)

Examined the relationship between student (N=153) characteristics and career service requests, utilization, and evaluations. Results suggested that clients' problem-solving appraisal affects their satisfaction and continued use of career services, and vocational identity affects aid-seeking style at a career center. (WAS)

Presents a model for conducting research on the career development of special populations. Reviews available research paradigms and offers an alternative framework designed to make maximum use of available data sources while minimizing potential theoretical bias. Presents an illustration of research conducted within the recommended framework.…

Studied participants identified as either people- oriented or task-oriented given group vocational counseling using a learning through interaction method, or a learning through individual problem solving method. Results show counseling approaches that were congruent with personality types were more effective in terms of amount of information…

Examined the relationship between decision-making style, scholastic achievement, and vocational maturity for college students (N=64). Results did not support the hypothesized relationship between rationality and attitudinal and cognitive maturity. Scholastic achievement and lack of dependent decision style were found to be moderately predictive of…