The purpose of this study was to examine the conditions under which adolescents appreciate career development literature. / It was hypothesized that the appreciation of career literature is directly related to reading ability, reasoning ability, and need for career information. These variables were operationalized in the following ways: (1) the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) measured reading ability (1973); (2) Lawson Test of Formal Reasoning measured abstract thinking (1978); and (3) the Career Decision Scale Factor 1, need for structure, measured need for career information (Osipow, et. al., 1976). Appreciation was measured by the Reading Appreciation Form (RAF) (Billups and Peterson, 1988) and the Poetic Evaluation Rating Scale (PERS) (Pederson and Rees, 1965). / The subjects were 80 junior and senior students selected at random from the Florida State University Developmental Research School. Using partial correlations, the findings were: (1) the ability to appreciate short stories is related to reading ability; (2) the ability to appreciate certain types of short stories is related to abstract thinking; and (3) the ability to appreciate career development literature is not related to career development needs (lack of structure). Implications of the findings for career education programs in schools are discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-05, Section: A, page: 1215. / Major Professor: Gary Peterson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77767 |
| Contributors | Billups, Arland Will., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 214 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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