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 relationships between career maturity, sex, physical disability, and grades in 40 disabled and 46 nondisabled college students. Results showed disabled students were more vocationally mature than nondisabled students and female students were more vocationally mature than males. Type of disability was not related to career maturity.…

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)

Examined extent and function of parental attachments among college seniors. Results from 159 college seniors revealed that characteristics of parental attachment as described by college seniors were positive and associated with self-reports of career maturity. Comparison of descriptions provided by seniors and first-year students revealed no…

Examined relationship between vocational identity and academic achievement for college freshmen (n=1,290). Results did not demonstrate relationship between vocational identity scores and grade point average. Results imply that counselors using vocational identity scores to target students in greatest need of career counseling may be missing many…

Curriculum choices of 324 male and 157 female liberal arts students who took the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) during freshman orientation were classified as congruent or incongruent on the basis of rated correspondence between three-letter codes derived from (SCII) Holland theme scales and expressed curricular choice. (Author)

Compared with men, women were found to be vocationally more mature and their intrinsic work values were more related to vocational maturity. (Author)

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)

Evaluates the Medical Career Development Inventory, a measure of career maturity, with student-physicians (N=160). Results indicated that it is possible to construct a measure of vocational development for a population of adults encountering a common set of vocational development tasks. (LLL)

Tested whether scores on the Self Directed Search relate to career development needs in a study of 138 college students. Findings showed the scores related differentially in ways predicted by Holland (1973) and supported probing whether college students earning low investigative scores were behind in their career development. (JAC)

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)

The effects of a career group experience on the vocational maturity of theoretically grouped college freshmen and sophomores were investigated using Super's Career Development Inventory as the dependent measure. Results indicated that students significantly increased their vocational maturity as a result of the group experience. (Author)

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…

Examines relationships between leisure behavior and occupational identity in college students (N=109). Results indicate significant relationships among thinking and contemplating, ethical leisure behavior, and occupational identity. Students more involved in intellectual and creative leisure activities were more advanced in occupational identity…