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Dybwad, Tom-Erik – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the structural validity of Daidalos, a 20-item inventory designed to assess the factors that might inhibit or promote successful career decision making, or career maturity. The sample consisted of 776 high school students; 367 were male and 409 were female. Participants ranged in age from 16…
Descriptors: Vocational Maturity, High School Students, Validity, Factor Structure
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Cabrera, Elizabeth F. – Career Development International, 2007
Purpose: This study aims to explore the reasons why women are leaving the workplace. Are they opting out of the workforce to stay at home with their children as current media reports suggest, or are the reasons more complex as the Kaleidoscope Career Model (KCM) suggests? A second objective is to examine whether or not women's primary career…
Descriptors: Females, Career Development, Careers, Family Work Relationship
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Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J.; Mortimer, Jeylan T. – Review of Educational Research, 2006
This article examines the consequences of adolescents' employment experiences for vocational development and educational pursuits within varying historical and social contexts. Attention is directed to the changing social and cultural context for adolescent paid work, the balance of school and work, the influence of work experience on adolescent…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Adolescents, Vocational Maturity, Employment Experience
Savickas, Mark L. – 1990
Career maturity denotes degree of readiness to make realistic career choices. Clients below a certain threshold of readiness lack the life experiences and personal inclinations needed to make fitting occupational choices. To increase their readiness, a counselor may help these clients develop the decisional attitudes and learn the choice concepts…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Counseling Theories, Readiness, Vocational Maturity
Westbrook, Bert W.; Parry-Hill, Joseph W., Jr. – 1973
The Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test (CVMT) was constructed to measure knowledge and abilities dealing with the characteristics and requirements of a wide range of occupations. Fifteen cognitive vocational maturity areas were identified; the present form of the test consists of 120 multiple choice items, whose reading grade levels range from 1.4…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Tests, Vocational Maturity
Palmo, Artis J.; Lutz, J. Gary – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1983
Compared scores on the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) for disadvantaged youngsters (N=120). Results suggested that professionals using the CMI should use caution when working with disadvantaged youngsters since there is such a strong relationship to intelligence, as measured by the WAIS. (JAC)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Intelligence, Predictor Variables, Vocational Maturity
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Patton, Wendy; Creed, Peter – Journal of Career Development, 2007
This study surveyed 925 Australian high school students enrolled in grades 8 through 12 on measures of occupational aspirations, occupational expectations, career status aspirations, and career status expectations; it tested the association between these variables and career maturity, career indecision, career decision-making self-efficacy, and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Professional Occupations, Vocational Maturity, Employment Level
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Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
Using previously unanalysed data from a lost study--the "Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations" and "Adult Roles" (1962-1964)--and data from a subsequent restudy, this paper contributes to debates on vocational education by examining three themes. First, the methodological issues raised by undertaking a restudy are discussed. Second, the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Adjustment, Industrial Psychology
Loesch, Larry C.; And Others – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1979
Community college students' vocational maturity levels were found to be similar to those of other adult groups. Additionally, no significant sex or grade-level differences were found, nor was vocational maturity significantly correlated with age. Significant racial group differences were found, however. Implications for personnel workers are…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Racial Differences, Research Projects, Vocational Maturity
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Klein, Michael A.; And Others – Journal of Career Assessment, 1997
A model for career assessment of persons with disabilities includes comprehensive evaluation of aptitudes, achievement, interests, career maturity, self-efficacy, and relevant medical/psychological information. A computerized system of skill analysis and job matching helps synthesize this information and generate potential careers. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Disabilities, Models, Vocational Interests
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Busacca, Louis A.; Taber, Brian J. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2002
The Career Maturity Inventory-Revised (CMI-R) and Occupational Plans Questionnaire were completed by 157 high school students. Analysis of construct and criterion validity demonstrated modest but limited support for CMI-R. Its scales were found to have low internal consistency reliabilities. The Attitude Scale, Competence Test, and total score…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Planning, Psychometrics, Reliability
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Homant, Robert J.; Dean, Douglas G. – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1988
Tested model of offender career maturity by dividing 211 inmates into groups based on self-esteem and prisonization (taking on of prison culture). Compared groups on job planning, job attitudes, and stigmatization. Contrary to model, high self-esteem and low prisonization were both correlated significantly with higher scores on job planning and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Correctional Institutions, Prisoners, Self Esteem
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Salomone, Paul R. – Journal of Career Development, 1996
Traces Donald Super's theory of career development, studies modifications in Super's conceptualization of life stages, and notes changes in the definition and conception of the career construct. Includes 63 references. (JOW)
Descriptors: Career Development, Careers, Developmental Stages, Theories
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Niles, Spencer G. – Career Development Quarterly, 1998
States that the construct of maturation's central role in career development theory seems outdated. Introduces the five articles concerning career maturity contained in this journal issue. (MKA)
Descriptors: Career Development, Counseling Theories, Research, Time
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Savickas, Mark L.; Briddick, William C.; Watkins, C. Edward, Jr. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2002
Results of the California Psychological Inventory and Career Development Inventory for 200 college students indicated that planful competence in career development is related to greater realization of one's potential and social adjustment. Mature attitudes toward career planning are related to extroversion and a positive orientation to social…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Social Adjustment, Vocational Maturity
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