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Super, Donald E.; Thompson, Albert S. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1979
Describes the Career Development Inventory, Form III, which provides data on its content, reliability, factor structure, and validity. Uses of the CDI in evaluation studies, in surveys for planning career education, and in individual and group counseling are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Development
Peer reviewedSuper, Donald E.; Nevill, Dorothy D. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1984
Tested eight hypotheses concerning relationships between socioeconomic status, sex, work importance, and career maturity with high school students (N=382). Results indicated that work salience (but not socioeconomic status--and sex only slightly) is directly related to career maturity. (LLL)
Descriptors: High School Students, Predictor Variables, Secondary Education, Sex Differences
Peer reviewedNevill, Dorothy D.; Super, Donald E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1988
Examined relationship between career maturity and commitment to work, sex, socioeconomic status, and college level among 372 undergraduates. Found commitment to work related to both attitudinal and cognitive factors of career maturity. Sex and socioeconomic status were not related to career maturity. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Educational Attainment, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSuper, Donald E.; Kidd, Jennifer M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1979
It is postulated that adult vocational maturity needs to be assessed because of the changing developmental tasks encountered during the course of careers. Super's proposed adult vocational maturity model is examined for the promise that it offers and the problems that arise in developing a multidimensional measure of vocational maturity. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Career Development, Measurement Techniques
Super, Donald E. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1977
Developmental models of vocational maturity are discussed and a mid-career model is proposed, noting developmental problems. An inventory for heterogeneous adults is described and the results are summarized. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Career Change, Career Counseling, Career Development
Peer reviewedSuper, Donald E. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1983
Discusses the matching model of assessment in educational and vocational counseling and suggests that it inhibits developmental counseling. A stage-theory model is proposed instead and is case illustrated. The career development model emphasizes autonomy, commitment, career maturity, and a good match of developing interests with career roles. (JAC)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Guidance, Counseling Techniques
Download full textSuper, Donald E. – 1985
One of the new dimensions of vocational and career counseling is the recognition of the continuity in careers. Despite periods of unemployment and despite a radical change of occupations, the person having these experiences of change is still the same person. Although a career involves the life pursuits of a person, there are several differing…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults
