College freshmen were divided into three groups: (1) 28 completed the Self-Directed Search and attended a 50-minute career exploration workshop based on it; (2) 28 completed the Career Decision-Making System-Revised (CDM-R) and attended a similar workshop; and (3) 28 were controls. CDM-R significantly increased knowledge of decision-making…

A model proposing that causality and work salience moderate the influence of gender, educational level, and socioeconomic status on career maturity was tested with 288 African-American students. Work salience had the strongest direct effect on career maturity. For these students home/family had higher salience than did work. (SK)

Reports cross-sectional data from 1,971 Australian adolescents who completed the Career Decision Scale and the Career Development Inventory. Results illustrate a developmental progression in career maturity, although a less uniform pattern emerged with gender differences. Findings regarding career indecision also presented a complex picture and…

Asian Americans (n=182) and European Americans (n=235) completed Crites Career Maturity Inventory and the Self-Construal Scale; Asian Americans also completed an acculturation scale. Asian Americans exhibited less mature career choices; highly acculturated Asian Americans and those with lower interdependent self-construal were similar to European…

Scales of the Career Development Inventory correlated significantly with certainty of career goals for college students but not with the incorporation score. (Author)

This article describes a model for updating and midcareer development and change. The model consists of motivation and work environment variables. (Author)

A study designed to compare the career maturity of students in a special class with educable mentally retarded students in regular classes indicated that special programs are not adequately preparing their students to enter the world of work. (SA)

The study involving 149 National Technical Institute for the Deaf summer orientation program students evaluated the use of the Career Maturity Inventory-Attitude Scale (CMI) with a deaf college student population. The original form of the test and an adapted version were used with two groups of students who were tested three times during a 2 1/2…

Results of this study support the notions that: (1) there are racial differences in career maturity in urban adolescents, and (2) there are no significant self-concept differences within the same sample population. (Author/WI)

The concurrent validity of the Career Maturity Inventory with two other instruments was investigated for a sample of ninth-grade boys and girls. Some tentative implications concerning construct validity were drawn. (Author)

Examined the relationships of the similarity or dissimilarity of beginning and ending college majors with a test of career decisiveness and the number of college changes in major. Calculated a freshman-senior college major similarity index based on Holland's calculus construct. Found the index to be moderately related to career decisiveness and…

The multitrait-multimethod matrix procedure was employed to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the five subscales of the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) Attitude Scale, Counseling Form B-1. (Author/LMO)

Investigated the effect of a short-term career guidance program on the career maturity and self-concept of Black and White delinquent youth (N=40). While not significantly different, the treatment groups achieved higher career maturity and self-concept scores than the control groups. (BH)

Study of female adolescents found: (1) significant value differences among those choosing traditional, moderately innovative, and innovative careers; (2) no significant differences on locus of control and one career maturity variable (career planning orientation); and (3) a significantly higher mean for moderate group compared to traditional group…