Assessing the vocational maturity of students in the East Central State of Nigeria

Achebe, Christie

doi:10.1016/0001-8791(82)90003-3

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“…Research on gender differences in career maturity has produced conflicting results. Some researchers have found female university students more career mature (e.g., Miller, 1974), some researchers have found the converse (e.g., Achebe, 1982), and yet others have found little relationship at all between gender and career maturity (e.g., Blustein, 1988). However, there is research that suggests that gender differences should be evident in countries where women are considered traditionally to be dependent on men and where the concept of a career is a relatively new one for women.…”

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The career development of black and white South African university students

Watson¹,

Stead

Jager³

1995

Int J Adv Counselling

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Abstract. This study investigates the possible influence of gender and culture on the career maturity and study and work role salience of South African students. Responses to the Life Role Inventory and Career Development Questionnaire of 260 first-year university students (137 white, 123 black) were analyzed. Culture was found to have a significant effect on both career maturity and study and work role salience while gender had no significant effect. Results are related to previous findings from international and South African literature. Implications for counselling are discussed.Super holds that the maturing of an individual's career attitudes and knowledge can only occur within a life space where work has importance. Nevill and Super (1983) point out that successful counselling of students on a tertiary level is dependent on'knowledge of both students' readiness to make a career choice (i.e. their career maturity) as well as how important work is to such students. Thus readiness for career decision making is dependent on the importance work holds for an individual, that is there needs to be a motivation for a career and for study towards such a career. Without this motivation, the attitudes and information necessary to cope with the developmental task of career decision making becomes irrelevant to the individual (Super, 1983).Examining the importance of the student and worker roles as well as the level of career maturity of university students has relevance not only for developed countries but for a developing country such as South Africa. The high failure rate amongst white and particularly black university students may be due, in part, to low salience of the study and work roles and/or low career maturity. In addition, black students face the added disadvantage of an inferior level of education and a lack of counselling facilities. Counselling students for future careers appears inexact at best and irrelevant at worst when the sa'l]ence of fhe study and work roles and the developmental readiness of a student to deal with career decision making remains an unknown within the counselling process.

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Section: International Research Backgroundmentioning

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The career development of black and white South African university students

Watson¹,

Stead

Jager³

1995

Int J Adv Counselling

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“…Perhaps the best evidence of this is that Foster's (1965) work is still regarded as the benchmark despite the fact that this study, in defiance of vocational maturity considerations (see Achebe, 1982), was predicated on the occupational and labour market opinions and perceptions of adolescent Ghanaians. There was a complete absence of data from the labour market.…”

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Vocational Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and the United States

Lewis¹,

Lewis²

1985

Comparative Education

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“…진로의식성숙수준이 높다고 보고되고 있다 [23]. 기존연 구에서는 대학생의 전공만족 [12,16,24], 진로자기효능감 [25,26] (2) .598** 1 General (3) .699** .616** 1 Perception (4) .…”

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The Relationship among Major Satisfaction, Career Preparation Behavior and Career Sense Maturity of Students of Department in Physical Education

Nam¹,

Cho²

2017

Journal of Digital Convergence

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among major satisfaction, career preparation behavior and career sense maturity of sports-related university students. To achieve the objective of this study 221 students in sports-related university were investigated with convenience sampling method. Frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlations analysis and structural equation model analysis were executed using SPSS Statistics v21 and SPSS Amos v21. As the results, the following conclusion was derived. First, it was discovered that the major satisfaction had static influence to the career preparation behavior. Second, it showed that the major satisfaction gave static influence to the career sense maturity. Third, it showed that the career preparation behavior affected the career sense maturity. 조사도구이 연구에서는 설문지를 조사도구로 사용하였다. 설문

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Assessing the vocational maturity of students in the East Central State of Nigeria

Cited by 36 publications

References 9 publications

The career development of black and white South African university students

The career development of black and white South African university students

Vocational Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and the United States

The Relationship among Major Satisfaction, Career Preparation Behavior and Career Sense Maturity of Students of Department in Physical Education

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