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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Career maturity"”.
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Career maturity in athletes : the effects of intervention upon the career maturity levels of intercollegiate athletes
… participation had upon the development of career maturity. The second was to determine if remedial educational measures could compensate for any identified deficiencies.A secondary goal involved the unrealistic expectations of intercollegiate athletes of becoming professionals athletes. …
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The effects of a career development course on career maturity levels and on career maturity as impacted by decision-making styles
… was to investigate the effects of a ten week career education course on the concept of career maturity and the impact of decision-making style on outcomes. A pre-post-test design was used with career maturity being assessed by Super's Career Development Inventory (CDI), and decision-making …
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The validity of the Career Maturity Inventory as a measure of career maturity among first-year community college students in Southwestern Virginia
… the extent to which the five dimensions of career choice attitudes, depicted in Crites Model of Career Maturity in Adolescence, are present in the Attitude Scale of the Career Maturity Inventory when used with first-year, full-time community college students in rural Appalachia. Also, the …
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Career maturity and learning disabilities at the secondary level
… of this study was to produce a portrait of career maturity in an LD secondary population described along multiple dimensions. The Career Development Inventory-Part 1 (CDI) was administered to the 7 females and 68 males who formed the LD population in grades 8, 10 and 12 of a Southwestern …
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Modeling the career maturity of hearing and hearing-impaired adolescents
… of this study was to determine whether the career development process was the same for hearing-impaired and normally-hearing adolescents. Subjects included 71 deaf and 318 nonhandicapped adolescents and their parents. A literature-based causal model of career maturity (Model 1) was developed …
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The career maturity of graduate students identified as enhancers or changers
… the role of education in relation to the career development of the more mature graduate student who is a member of both the educational and the work community. The primary purpose of this study was to determine if graduate students were mature in their career development and whether there …
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The career maturity of Grade 9 learners in selected schools at Keetmanshoop, Namibia
Career maturity is an individual’s ability to make proper career choices and includes awareness of what is required to make career decisions, as well as the extent to which one’s choices are both realistic and consistent over time. The first aim of the present study was to obtain information …
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Effects of two career development programs on career maturity of seventh grade students
… this study was to investigate the effects of two career orientation and exploratory programs on the vocational maturity level of seventh grade students. Two independent variables involving type of program and length of program were manipulated by the researcher by using a 2 x 3 factorial design to …
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Family correlates of career maturity attitudes in rural high school students with learning disabilities
… focused on influential factors affecting the career maturity attitudes of rural high school students with learning disabilities. A variety of variables were studied in each of the following areas: personal demographics, learning disability characteristics, ability/achievement levels, …
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The relationship of participation in three career programs and the career maturity of gifted high school students
The present study was concerned with career maturity of high school gifted students. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship of participation in three different career education programs to the career maturity of gifted students. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine …
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A study of the relationship of minority adolescents' career maturity to locus of control and selected correlates
The present study was concerned with career maturity among black high school seniors. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship of career maturity to locus of control, academic achievement, socioeconomic status and sex. The population from which the sample was taken consisted of …
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A construct validity study of the career development inventory and the attitude scale of the career maturity inventory
… network that supported the construct of career maturity. To achieve this purpose nine hypotheses were tested using a sample of 104 fourth year college students and 24 first year college students. These hypotheses tested the relationship of the within and between portions of the …
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Career maturity amongst first year university students in a commerce faculty at a tertiary institution in the Western Cape
Career maturity is an essential requirement in human existence. Super (1979) identified five stages which highlight the level of maturity an individual should have achieved at a certain age. However, increasingly, it is being recognised that individuals are not at the level of career maturity where …
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Effects of career guidance strategies for females on career maturity and locus of control of high-achieving twelfth-grade females
… 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 …
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The effects of a short term career education program on selected aspects of career maturity of rural senior high black youth
… with the effects of a six week short term career education program on self appraisal, knowledge about occupation information, goal selections, career planning, and career decision making as measured by the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI). Only the Competence Scale of the CMI was utilized in …
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A comparison of career maturity, self-esteem, and locus of control between students enrolled and students not enrolled in a clusters approach to career orientation class
… students enrolled in a Clusters Approach to Career Orientation class and students not enrolled in this class in order to determine if the career class had any significant effect on the students' career aspirations, self-esteem enhancement, and locus of control (independent/responsible …
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Promoting viable career choice goals through career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity in inner-city high school students: a test of social cognitive career theory.
… the viability of inner-city adolescents' career choice goals, the purpose of this study was to predict relationships among person factors, environmental factors, career maturity, career decision-making self-efficacy, vocational outcome expectations, and viable career choice goals within …
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A comparison of high school dropouts and retainers on career choice competencies
… the extent to which differences existed in the career choice competencies (career maturity) of white male high school dropouts and retainers in the 10th and 11th grades in Cabell County, West Virginia. Dropouts and retainers were compared on the following career choice competencies as measured …
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