College freshmen were divided into three groups: (1) 28 completed the Self-Directed Search and attended a 50-minute career exploration workshop based on it; (2) 28 completed the Career Decision-Making System-Revised (CDM-R) and attended a similar workshop; and (3) 28 were controls. CDM-R significantly increased knowledge of decision-making…

A model proposing that causality and work salience moderate the influence of gender, educational level, and socioeconomic status on career maturity was tested with 288 African-American students. Work salience had the strongest direct effect on career maturity. For these students home/family had higher salience than did work. (SK)

Reports cross-sectional data from 1,971 Australian adolescents who completed the Career Decision Scale and the Career Development Inventory. Results illustrate a developmental progression in career maturity, although a less uniform pattern emerged with gender differences. Findings regarding career indecision also presented a complex picture and…

Asian Americans (n=182) and European Americans (n=235) completed Crites Career Maturity Inventory and the Self-Construal Scale; Asian Americans also completed an acculturation scale. Asian Americans exhibited less mature career choices; highly acculturated Asian Americans and those with lower interdependent self-construal were similar to European…

The study involving 149 National Technical Institute for the Deaf summer orientation program students evaluated the use of the Career Maturity Inventory-Attitude Scale (CMI) with a deaf college student population. The original form of the test and an adapted version were used with two groups of students who were tested three times during a 2 1/2…

Examined the relationships of the similarity or dissimilarity of beginning and ending college majors with a test of career decisiveness and the number of college changes in major. Calculated a freshman-senior college major similarity index based on Holland's calculus construct. Found the index to be moderately related to career decisiveness and…

The multitrait-multimethod matrix procedure was employed to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the five subscales of the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) Attitude Scale, Counseling Form B-1. (Author/LMO)

Investigated the effect of a short-term career guidance program on the career maturity and self-concept of Black and White delinquent youth (N=40). While not significantly different, the treatment groups achieved higher career maturity and self-concept scores than the control groups. (BH)

Study of female adolescents found: (1) significant value differences among those choosing traditional, moderately innovative, and innovative careers; (2) no significant differences on locus of control and one career maturity variable (career planning orientation); and (3) a significantly higher mean for moderate group compared to traditional group…

To examine the process of career indecision, 203 college stuents were given the Career Decision Scale, and the Johnson Decision Making Inventory. Results indicate that one of the Johnson types is associated with a higher degree of career indecision. Spontaneous external decision making types scored highest on the Career Decision Scale, followed by…

Tested whether self-esteem and mature career attitudes related to one another in predicting academic and work achievement for college students (N=174). Analysis showed both constructs related to achievement and supported the thesis that self-esteem facilitates development of mature career attitudes, which in turn promote academic and work…

Assessed the vocational decision-making problems of rehabilitation clients (N=60). Revealed that decision-making problems of clients can be grouped into three areas: employment readiness, self-appraisal, and decision-making readiness. Suggested that vocationally decided and undecided subjects differ significantly in the extent to which they have…

Describes the development and validation of a measure of attitudinal, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of vocational maturity for educationally and economically "disadvantaged" adults who experience delayed career development. Presents evidence for the measure's reliability, content, and construct validity, including its performance in a…

This study was an attempt to identify significant indicators of job training need. The variable "recency of job training" held the most promise as an indicator of job training need but other variables in the study warrant further investigation. (Author/CT)

Findings show that more vocationally mature students are more realistic and have more highly integrated data in making career-related decisions than less vocationally mature students. The level and type of career decision-making skills and career-related preferences are important factors in career decision making. (Author/BEF)