Effects of career guidance strategies for females on career maturity and locus of control of high-achieving twelfth-grade females

This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of the following career guidance strategies: career information investigating, job information interviewing, shadowing, panel of positive female role models, parental involvement and group counseling on career maturity and locus of control of high-achieving twelfth-grade females. Participants in this study were thirty-two high-achieving twelfth-grade females currently enrolled in advanced placement English classes, who were currently taking advanced mathematics, advanced science, and advanced foreign language courses; or who had completed three years of advanced mathematics, advanced science, and advanced foreign language courses. The design of this experiment was a pretest-posttest, experimental/control group design. The participants in the treatment group participated in a ten-week career guidance program involving strategies to increase career maturity and improve internal locus of control utilizing the results of the Career Maturity Inventory, Counseling Form B-1 and the Different Situations Inventory.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Counseling and Student Personnel Services

Department dc:contributor.department

Counseling and Student Personnel Services

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1993

Author dc:creator

• Borden, McKay

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Humes, Charles W. II

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Miles, Johnnie H.
• Hohenshil, Thomas H.
• Bender, Mary M.
• McKeen, Ronald L.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-10102005-131614

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39731