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The Relationship Between Attitudinal and Behavioral Aspects of Career Maturity
Author(s) -
Fouad Nadya A.,
Keeley Timothy J.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1992.tb00331.x
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , psychology , construct (python library) , sample (material) , social psychology , career development , applied psychology , developmental psychology , chemistry , chromatography , computer science , programming language
The construct of career maturity has played a prominent role in career development theory. To have practical significance, however, career counselors should know that career maturity is linked to actual career‐related behaviors. Toward this end, the current study investigated whether a meaningful relationship existed between an attitudinal measure of career maturity and a measure of career maturity reflecting job performance‐related behavioral competencies in a sample of minority youth. Only modest relationships were found between several career maturity attitudes and the behavioral measures. Results are discussed and implications for career counselors working with minority adolescents are provided.