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Emanuel Sebastian Turda – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Context: Adolescence is the training ground for adult life. In a relatively short period, the adolescent will undergo a metamorphosis. During the high school years, the majority of adolescents move from persistent dependence to true independence, from logical thinking to abstract, complex and hypothetical thinking, from impulsivity to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Decision Making
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Hughes, Catherine – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
Relationships between career maturity and self-concept, parenting style and individualism-collectivism across Australian and Thai cultural contexts were investigated. Berry's ("1969") etic-emic model for adapting instruments for cross-cultural research was applied. "Derived etic" status was achieved for the career planning…
Descriptors: Individualism, Vocational Maturity, Career Planning, Parenting Styles
Seifert, Karl H. – 1991
In the first part of this paper, the current status of criterion-related validity research in the field of career development assessment is analyzed. It is shown that the results of intermediate and long-term follow-up studies--in contrast to studies in the same educational setting--provide only little evidence for the assumption that career…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Concurrent Validity, Foreign Countries
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Tokar, David M.; Withrow, Jason R.; Hall, Rosalie J.; Moradi, Bonnie – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2003
Structural equation modeling was used to test theoretically based models in which psychological separation and attachment security variables were related to career indecision and those relations were mediated through vocational self-concept crystallization. Results indicated that some components of separation and attachment security did relate to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Career Choice, College Students, Emotional Response
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Lawrence, William; Brown, Duane – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
A multiple regression procedure was used to develop a further understanding of the relationship of self-concept, intelligence, socioeconomic status, race, and sex to career maturity as measured by the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI). Results further indicated that socioeconomic status and self-concept seem to have a differential effect upon career…
Descriptors: High School Students, Intelligence, Multiple Regression Analysis, Predictor Variables
McNair, David; Brown, Duane – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1983
Investigated the relationship of self-concept, parental influence, race, sex, and socioeconomic status to occupational aspirations and expectations and career maturity in 259 10th graders. Black students seemed to have aspirations and expectations similar to whites but less career maturity. Parent influence was an important predictor for all…
Descriptors: Black Students, Expectation, High School Students, High Schools