A comparison is made between the Vocational Development Inventory and the Readiness for Career Planning scale when both were administered to the same sample. Both instruments show an over-all progression in vocational maturity at different grade levels as well as differences between socioeconomic groups. Vocational maturity scores from the two…

Investigates the influence of social reinforcement, modeling, direct reinforcement, and words and images on the acquisition of career-related preferences. Students identified social reinforcement as the most important antecedent for their career preference. Career decision making skills mediate the influence of models and direct reinforcement on…