| Abstract: | Lack of clear support for Crites' career maturity model in recent research, among other factors, led to this investigation, which involved 142, 114, 112, and 71 students from grades 9, 10, 11, and 12, respectively, of an Ontario high school. The study explored two major questions: (1) Are career-choice attitudes and career-choice competencies different dimensions of Crites' model? (2) Does vocational maturity proceed monotonically by grade levels? The investigators found intercorrelations among the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) Attitude Scale and five parts of the CMI Competence Test to be more consistent with Crites' model than those reported by others. This study found correlations in the .10s and .20s between the Attitude Scale and the Competence Test and correlations in the .30s and .40s within various parts of the Competence Test. There was also a monotonie increase in CMI scores from grades 9 through 12 with significant grade and sex effects. Since the findings of this study are at odds with the results of other recent studies on the validity of the model, there is a need for further research. |
