Six Approaches to the Assessment of Career Maturity

This article discusses the construct of career maturity and briefly reviews research that identifies factors associated with this construct. Brief reviews of 6 instruments designed to measure career maturity are included: The Career Maturity Inventory (Crites, 1978a, 1978b), the Career Development I...

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Published in:Journal of counseling and development 1998-10, Vol.76 (4), p.475-482
Main Authors: Levinson, Edward M., Ohlers, Denise L., Caswell, Steve, Kiewra, Kathleen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adults
Approaches
Assessment
Attitudes
Career Change
Career changes
Career Choice
Career Counseling
Career Development
Career development planning
Careers
Computer Managed Instruction
Counseling
Decision making
Employment Counselors
Intelligence
Maturation
Maturity Tests
Occupational Tests
Personality Assessment
Personality Measures
Professional development
Psychological aspects
Quantitative psychology
Standard scores
Validity
Vocational Maturity
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Summary:This article discusses the construct of career maturity and briefly reviews research that identifies factors associated with this construct. Brief reviews of 6 instruments designed to measure career maturity are included: The Career Maturity Inventory (Crites, 1978a, 1978b), the Career Development Inventory (Super, Thompson, Lindeman, Jordaan, & Myers, 1988), the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (Super, Thompson, & Lindeman, 1988), the Assessment of Career Decision Making (Harren, 1979; Buck & Daniels, 1985), the Career Beliefs Inventory (Krumboltz, 1994), and the Career Decision Scale (Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico, Koschier, 1976). Issues associated with the assessment of career maturity are also discussed.
ISSN:0748-9633
1556-6676
DOI:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1998.tb02707.x