Open AccessPredicting Two Components of Career Maturity in School Based Adolescents
Author(s) -
Peter A. Creed,
Wendy Patton
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of career development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.518
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1573-3548
pISSN - 0894-8453
DOI - 10.1177/089484530302900405
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , psychology , certainty , variance (accounting) , social psychology , socioeconomic status , context (archaeology) , career development , developmental psychology , demography , population , sociology , mathematics , paleontology , geometry , accounting , business , biology
Three hundred and sixty-seven secondary school students across five year levels (8–12) were assessed for levels of career maturity (attitude and knowledge), work commitment, work value, career decidedness (indecision and certainty), career decision-making self-efficacy and self-esteem, and indicated their age, gender, socioeconomic status, school achievement and work experience. Using two multiple regression analyses, the predictor variables were able to account for 52% of the variance of career maturity attitude, and account for 41% of the variance of career maturity knowledge. Self-efficacy, age, career decidedness (certainty) and work commitment were the main predictors of career maturity attitude. Age, gender, career decidedness (certainty), work commitment and career decidedness (indecision) were the main predictors of career maturity knowledge. Results demonstrated the importance of examining two aspects of career maturity (attitude and knowledge), and were discussed in the context of Super’s (1957, 1990) theory of career development
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