The Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), one of the highly researched career theories, suggested that outcomes expectance and self-efficacy are crucial factors in the career selection process. The result of career outcomes expectancy (COE) and career decision-making self-efficacy (CDSE) may be pivotal in an individual's shunning or being more…

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…

Study 1 (n=35) established that value discounting (perceived value of outcomes reduced as a function of perceived delay) in job choice correlated with anxiety. Study 2 (n=68) revealed that older students discounted less at short delays, more at very long ones. Study 3 (n=33) found less discounting when delay intervals were filled with some kind of…

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)

Examined the causal relationship between sex-role attitudes, cognitive complexity, and career choice in 174 college women. Results showed a complex relationship which changes as a function of age and progress through college. Counselors must be aware of the interactions between cognitive and attitudinal factors. (JAC)

Studied the relationship of vocational maturity with Holland's theory of vocational choice. Examined Holland's constructs of consistency, differentiation, and congruency, along with demographic factors of sex and age. Results showed congruency and age related significantly to vocational maturity. Significant differences occurred within both…

Compared value of several theoretically derived personal (age and gender), educational (class standing and academic performance), and psychological (locus of control and vocational congruence) factors as predictors of undergraduates' (n=337) career maturity. Vocational congruence and academic performance emerged as two most significant predictors.…

Only the College Major Questionnaire distinguished between women who had different career plans. Women planning to pursue graduate or law school were more intuitive. Women planning to practice nursing were more analytic. The measures discriminated among women at different years in school. (Author)

Administered measures of vocational maturity and career choice crystallization to 158 community college students. Used canonical analysis to identify relationships between age, gender, career choice crystallization, and vocational maturity. Analysis yielded one significant canonical root, indicating most shared variance between variables was…

The career maturity construct has been the subject of much research since its introduction into the literature in 1955. Studies have investigated various correlates of the career maturity construct. The more recurrent research focuses can be grouped into the following clusters: age or grade level differences; race, ethnic, and cultural…