This study aims to examine the key predictors between career maturity and career decision-making self-efficacy on career adaptability among students in the Foundation Studies for the Agricultural Science programme at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). A quantitative research design using a questionnaire consists of career maturity, career…

Given the importance of career discernment in emerging adulthood, we evaluated an understudied career development approach for higher education students. Specifically, we tested the relationship between spiritual discernment exercises and sense of purpose and calling through the indirect effects of self-concept clarity, career decision…

National Career Development Association (NCDA) is excited to release the re-imagined 7th edition of their influential guide to career assessment. Re-conceptualized and renamed to "A Comprehensive Guide to Career Assessment," the "Guide" contains important information career counselors, educators, and practitioners will find…

The higher education courses for social experts started more than 25 years ago in Hungary. Since then more than 20 thousand students have earned a degree in social areas. Some of them quit their original jobs whereas a lot of these specialists still provide support as human assistants and regard their profession a career. Due to the huge amount of…

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…

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…

Explored how academic major and cocurricular leadership activities influence college students' (n=70) ability to make mature career choices. Students who held cocurricular leadership roles revealed more positive attitudes about careers and enhanced abilities to look ahead when making career choices. Students with vocational majors reported better…

This study explored the differences in vocational maturity, academic aptitude, and achievement variables among female sorority students who made congruent, incongruent, and undecided occupational choices. The findings suggest that students in the congruent female group tend to be more vocationally mature. (Author)

Examined the relationship between students' sex, class, and participation in athletics with their ability to formulate mature career plans. Students (N=568) completed questionnaires, which showed freshman and sophomore male athletes did not formulate career plans to as great an extent as freshman and sophomore nonathletes. (BH)

Assessed the validity of using systematic life history information to predict three vocational decision-making criteria in 200 college students: vocational decidedness and its two components, vocational identity and vocational maturity. Significant typologies were identified, however, results indicated that the overall construct of vocational…

Evaluated the effects of a career course for college freshmen undecided about a major or career, using the Vocational Identity, Occupational Information and Barrier scales of My Vocational Situation. Results suggested the course had a positive effect on vocational identity, independent of the personal characteristics of instructor or student. (JAC)

Examined the relationship between factors influencing career development and the decision-making process in 174 students. Results suggested that planning orientation will hinder or facilitate movement beyond the exploratory phase of decision making, and decision-making skills reduce the effort of the prechoice portion of decision making. (WAS)

Investigated the hypothesis that time perspective is a component in vocational maturity and career decision making with college freshmen (N=97). Results supported the hypothesis and specifically linked time perspective to planfulness and degree of indecision. (LLL)

This paper describes the Career-Planning component of a college course in personnel management. The project includes a written resume and the student's career schedule. Areas covered are needs assessment, possible careers, long and short range plans, and the student's assessment of personal strengths. (NG)

Applied Campbell and Fiske's multitrait, multimethod analysis to scores from 3 measures of career development (Attitude Scale of Career Maturity Inventory, Vocational Preference Inventory, and Decision-Making Scale of Career Development Inventory) completed by 129 college students. Table of multitrait, multimethod correlation coefficients for the…