The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of a computer-based career guidance system (CBCGS) on the self-concept and career maturity of community college students and to determine the relationships of sex and locus of control on self-concept and career maturity. / The Separate-Sample Pretest Posttest design was used. The System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) was the CBCGS used. The instruments were Rotter's Internal-External Scale, the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, and the Career Maturity Inventory. The sample consisted of 104 students enrolled at the Santa Fe Community College, Florida, in the 1980 Fall term, who used SIGI on a walk-in basis. The Rotter Internal-External Scale was administered to all the subjects before beginning the SIGI program. / Two by two factorial ANOVAS were performed on career maturity and self-concept, with a group tested before SIGI use and another group tested after, and with sex as a moderator variable. At (alpha) = .10, no significant differences were found for career maturity. In conjunction with the findings of two previous studies, this investigator concluded that the effectiveness of a CBCGS on the career maturity of community college students can be significantly enhanced by stretching the time interval of interaction with the CBCGS and by utilizing the services of a human counselor or instructor along with the CBCGS. / ANOVA and the Newman-Keuls test showed a significant difference ((alpha) = .10) between the mean self-concept scores of males and females, and for the interaction between the male posttest and the female posttest groups. Although the male and female pretest groups had very similar mean self-concept scores, the female posttest group had a higher mean self-concept score than that of the female pretest. However, the mean self-concept score of the male posttest group was lower than that of the male pretest group. The possibility was pointed out that the significant interaction may be a function of simple regression effects on repeated measures away from the general mean and, therefore, not have any essential meaning. / Pearson product-moment correlations (r), at (alpha) = .05, were used to investigate the relationships between locus of control and the two dependent variables. Internality of control correlated with students' career maturity scores for all groups and for the entire sample. However, the values of r were not significantly different from zero. Another study had found a significant relationship between internality and career maturity. But these two studies differed in several factors, including again the use of counseling sessions in the earlier study. / Internality of control also correlated with students' self-concept scores for all groups (except for the male pretest group) and for the entire sample, although the values of r, again, were not significantly different from zero (except for the male posttest group). Of interest was the positive correlation between locus of contol and self-concept scores for the male pretest group. The 95% confidence interval for this group's population correlation coefficient (p) was calculated and found to be -0.014 (LESSTHEQ) p (LESSTHEQ) +0.710. Hence, the shift in the sign of r for this group could be merely due to sampling variation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-01, Section: A, page: 0088. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74370 |
| Contributors | MAR-BRENNAN, CAROLINA DEL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 128 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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