This study was designed to examine the relationship of adolescent females' career choices to locus of control, perceptions of femininity, socioeconomic status, race, mother's occupation and developmental stage, The participants in this study were 230 eighth grade girls and 130 twelfth grade girls from a densely populated, urban-suburban area which was predominantly white middle class. Four instruments were used to collect data. These included the Career Choice Form, designed by the researcher to gather information about participants' career choices, and the Personal Data Questionnaire, developed for collecting information about socioeconomic status, race, mother's occupation and developmental stage. Rotter's Internal-External Scale and Spence and Helmreich's Attitudes toward Women Scale were used respectively to obtain measures of locus of control and perceptions of femininity. Data was collected in May, 1980, Students met with the researcher in large groups and completed all four instruments during one-hour periods. In this study career choices were described as traditional (30 percent or more of all employed workers in a particular occupation are female) or nontraditional (less than 30 percent of all employed workers in a particular occupation are female). The frequency and percentage of traditional and nontraditional career choices found among students in various subpopulations (i.e., 8th graders; 12th graders; whites; minorities; high, medium and low SES groups; respondents with mothers in traditional careers and respondents with mothers in nontraditional careers) were reported. Mean scores on the I-E Scale and the Attitudes toward Women Scale were also computed for traditional and nontraditional career choosers. Multiple regression procedures were used to analyze the data: respondents' career choice was the dependent variable and the independent variables included students' I-E score, AWS score, socioeconomic status classification (high, medium or low), race (white or minority), mother's occupation and grade level (measure for developmental stage). Multiple regression procedures were chosen for analyzing the data as this provided a method for studying the relationship of career choices to each of the independent variables while controlling for the effects of the other independent variables. The data collected in this study revealed that nontraditional career choices increased as socioeconomic status increased. Nontraditional career choices were also more prevalent among 12th graders than among 8th graders. Results of the multiple regression analysis indicated that a significant relationship existed between adolescent females' career choice and socioeconomic status and developmental stage. Locus of control, perceptions of femininity, race and mother's occupation were not found to be significantly related to adolescent females' career choices. / Ed. D.