The Concept of Career Maturity
Super (1955) was the pioneer to start off the concept of career maturity in the Career Pattern Study. At the beginning, career maturity was called "vocational maturity". Super defined career maturity as " the place reached (by the individual) on the continuum of vocational development from exploration to decline" (Super, 1955, p. 153). Later, Super (1984) simplified the concept of career maturity to the readiness of an individual in making decision about career matters.
Base on Crites (1976) of career maturity model, it includes two dimensions which are affective and cognitive. Affective dimension concerns about the feelings and attitudes in career development. On the other hand, cognitive dimension indicates …show more content…
Planning attitudes is about thinking and preparing the future about career. Mature attitudes are whereby individuals look into the future and enthusiastically involve in activities regarding career planning. However, immature attitudes usually reluctant individuals to plan for their future career thus they do not feel the necessity to acquaint and equip themselves to career. Hence, attitudes toward career exploration are about the readiness to search and use good resources to plan the career. Individuals showing immature attitudes toward exploration when they do not bother in using those good sources of information about career and about the …show more content…
Fenning and May (2013) studied the effec of self-efficacy and self-concept toward academic performance and career path in a college. Result showed that higher level of self-efficacy can help individuals get more information and consider more career choices. This enable them to have a better preparation for their future career. Thus, when students were more confident in academic and the ability in obtaining a job, they were more likely to believe that their career choice was achievable.
Numerous empirical studies found the negative relationship between career decision self efficacy and career indecision (Taylor & Popma, 1990; Choi et al., 2011). Individual with lower level of career indecision would have a clearer goal about their future career than those who had higher scores (Hughes & Karp, 2004). Moreover, individual with higer scores of career indecision was at the position of not being able to the advantage of opportunities in career development and was less satisfied in career choices (Nota et al.,
Super (1955) was the pioneer to start off the concept of career maturity in the Career Pattern Study. At the beginning, career maturity was called "vocational maturity". Super defined career maturity as " the place reached (by the individual) on the continuum of vocational development from exploration to decline" (Super, 1955, p. 153). Later, Super (1984) simplified the concept of career maturity to the readiness of an individual in making decision about career matters.
Base on Crites (1976) of career maturity model, it includes two dimensions which are affective and cognitive. Affective dimension concerns about the feelings and attitudes in career development. On the other hand, cognitive dimension indicates …show more content…
Planning attitudes is about thinking and preparing the future about career. Mature attitudes are whereby individuals look into the future and enthusiastically involve in activities regarding career planning. However, immature attitudes usually reluctant individuals to plan for their future career thus they do not feel the necessity to acquaint and equip themselves to career. Hence, attitudes toward career exploration are about the readiness to search and use good resources to plan the career. Individuals showing immature attitudes toward exploration when they do not bother in using those good sources of information about career and about the …show more content…
Fenning and May (2013) studied the effec of self-efficacy and self-concept toward academic performance and career path in a college. Result showed that higher level of self-efficacy can help individuals get more information and consider more career choices. This enable them to have a better preparation for their future career. Thus, when students were more confident in academic and the ability in obtaining a job, they were more likely to believe that their career choice was achievable.
Numerous empirical studies found the negative relationship between career decision self efficacy and career indecision (Taylor & Popma, 1990; Choi et al., 2011). Individual with lower level of career indecision would have a clearer goal about their future career than those who had higher scores (Hughes & Karp, 2004). Moreover, individual with higer scores of career indecision was at the position of not being able to the advantage of opportunities in career development and was less satisfied in career choices (Nota et al.,