We surveyed Australian adolescents and parents to test differences and congruence in perceptions of adolescent career development tasks (career planning, exploration, certainty, and world-of-work knowledge) and vocational identity. We found that, for adolescents (N = 415), career development tasks (not career exploration) explained 48% of the…

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…

The research in this monograph was stimulated by the need for an objective, standardized measure of vocational maturity which would provide an empirical referent for the conceptual terms of vocational development theory. The instrument constructed for this purpose is the Vocational Development Inventory, which consists of a Competence Test and the…

Discusses the construct of career maturity, and reviews research that identifies factors associated with it. Describes six measurement instruments and reviews their uses and psychometric properties. Summarizes information about these measures in two tables. Discusses issues associated with the assessment of career maturity. (Author/EMK)