This study is an evaluation of a decision-making program specifically designed to increase the career maturity of incarcerated youths. The program was developed by the researcher and was designed with the needs of the target population in mind. / The study included 2 groups of incarcerated youths who were part of an on-going program at the Dozier School in Marianna, Florida. The subjects' growth in career maturity was measured by the Career Development Inventory. The decision-making program was presented in 5 instructional modules. The dependent measures were administrated pre, post and after a 6 week follow-up period. / Analysis of the results employed a t-test of the pretest-posttest differences between groups on all measures, a t-test of the pretest, follow-up differences of the experimental group and the pretest-posttest differences of the comparison group, and a repeated measures test on all measures for the pretest, posttest, follow-up tests of the treatment group. These analyses indicated that the decision-making program positively affected components of career maturity. This positive effect was found to increase over time. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-12, Section: B, page: 3670. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76205 |
| Contributors | OTTEN, PETER LELAND., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 100 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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