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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The effects of a career development course on career maturity levels and on career maturity as impacted by decision-making styles

Baldwin, Warren J. January 1981 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a ten week career education course on the concept of career maturity and the impact of decision-making style on outcomes. A pre-post-test design was used with career maturity being assessed by Super's Career Development Inventory (CDI), and decision-making style being determined by Harren's Assessment of Career Decision-Making - Styles (ACDM-S). A treatment and control group were used, and due to disproportionate sex and age characteristics across groups these two variables were used as covariates in concert with the pre-test in the ANCOVA analysis of the experimental effects. Discriminant analysis, reliability estimates (KR-20) and factor analysis provided validation evidence for the ACDM-S as a classification instrument. Significant (p ≤ 0.05) increases in career maturity as measured by the CDI were found in only Scale B (Resources for Exploration), however Scale A increases approached the assumed significance (p ≤ 0.05) level of probability. Significant (p ≤ 0.05) interaction effects between groups and styles were found on Scale A. Rational decision-makers in the treatment group increased, while for other styles control group means remained higher or equal to the treatment group means. Both Scale A and B are attitudinal in nature, while C, D, and E are cognitive. An informal post-experimental interview of one third (n=20) of the treatment group suggest generally positive reactions to the career education class, but substantive negative reactions to the CDI instrument. / Ed. D.

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