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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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Miner, Claire Usher; Osborne, W. Larry; Jaeger, Richard M. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1997
Uses regression analysis on career development measures to examine whether career maturity indicators are predictive of interest consistency, differentiation, and score elevation. Results indicate that interest consistency and score elevation were weakly predicted by the measure; no relationship existed between the attitudinal and cognitive…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, College Students, Higher Education
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Khan, Sar B.; Alvi, Sabir A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1983
Investigated educational, social, and psychological correlates of vocational maturity in Ontario high school students (N=272). Analysis showed Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) scores were generally correlated with students' educational and occupational aspirations and parents' aspirations. Higher CMI scores were associated with higher self-esteem…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
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
Whitman, Robert L. – 1972
To determine aspects of the attitudinal dimension of vocational maturity among rural disadvantaged girls and boys of eastern Kentucky, samples of Grade 8 and 12 students were administered the: (1) Vocational Development Inventory-Attitude Scale, (2) Occupational Aspiration Scale, (3) California Test of Mental Maturity and the Otis-Lennon Mental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations