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Occupational Decision Development over the High School Years
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Jepsen, David A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
This study described the development of occupational decision processes over the high school years. The key processes in occupational decision development for both sexes appeared to be an information search strategy and an elaborate rationale. Both processes increased in complexity and contributed to confident feelings about occupational choices…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Choice, Decision Making, High School Students
Career Planning for Prison Inmates
Feldman, Howard S.; Marinelli, Robert P. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1975
A brief career planning experience was examined in relation to the vocational maturity of inmates. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Planning, Correctional Rehabilitation, Decision Making
The Relationship Between Locus of Control and Indices of Vocational Maturity in Adolescents.
Lokan, Janice J.; Boss, Marvin W. – 1977
Super's self concept theory of vocational development has been criticized for its lack of attention to individual difference variables, particularly with regard to explaining why appropriate vocational behaviours are attained more readily by some individuals than by others. Partial explanation is provided here for the relationshp between locus of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Decision Making Skills
Vocational Development Groups for Ninth-Grade Students
Swails, Richard G.; Herr, Edwin L. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1976
This study contributes to the current ambivalence in the research literature about the utility of short-term approaches in the vocational development of high school students. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Decision Making Skills, Group Counseling, High School Students