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    The career maturity of high school pupils in the Stellenbosch area
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999-03) Morris, Peter John; Vos, Henry D.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Industrial Psychology.
    ENGLISH SUMMARY : The aim of the present study was to assess the career maturity of Coloured matriculants in three schools in the Stellenbosch area. The study secondly aimed at determining the influence of socio-economic status, locus of control, self-esteem, mental ability, gender, school and residential area on career maturity. It was further envisaged that the results of this study would be useful for the improvement of vocational guidance teaching at the three participating schools, and that it would also provide baseline data on career development research in disadvantaged communities in South Africa. The 303 (male and female) subjects participating in the present study were all chosen from schools in the Stellenbosch area. To compare the possible effects of social and environmental factors on career maturity for different schools, one school each, from a typical township environment, a typical middle class environment and a typical rural/farming environment, was selected. Six measuring instruments were administered to all subjects on the same day. The instruments were the Career Development Questionnaire, Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory, Rotter's Internal-External Scale, the Mental Alertness Test of the Potential Index Battery, the Socio-Economic Deprivation Questionnaire and a Biographical Questionnaire. A correlational analysis (using the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, r) was done to determine whether a relationship existed between career maturity and the independent variables of socio-economic status, locus of control,self-esteem, mental ability, gender, school and area of residence. A number of One-way Analysis of Variance computations were also carried out to determine the relationship of the significant independent variables on the dependent variable of career maturity. There were significant low negative correlations between career maturity, decision-making, career information, the integration of self and career information, career planning and socio-economic status (p < ,01 ). The correlation between career maturity and locus of control is a significant moderate negative correlation (p < ,01), whereas the correlation between self-information, decision-making, career information, the integration of self and career information, career planning and locus of control is a significant low negative correlation (p < ,01 ). There were significant moderate positive correlations between career maturity, decision-making and self-esteem (p < ,01 ), whereas the correlation between self-information, career information, the integration of self and career information, career planning and self-esteem was a significant low positive correlation (p < ,01). There were significant low positive correlations between career maturity, self information, decision-making, career information, the integration of self and career information and mental ability. Correlations with career maturity, self-information, career information and the integration of self and career information, were at the p < ,01 level, whereas the correlation with decision-making was at the p < ,05 level. There were significant low negative correlations between self-information (p < ,01 ), decision-making (p < ,05) and gender. Significant positive low correlations were found between career maturity, self-information, career information, the integration of self and career information, career planning and school attended (p < ,01 ). No significant correlations were found between career maturity, self-information, decision-making, career information, the integration of self and career information, career planning and area of residence. A discussion of the results, as well as recommendations, were discussed. From the results of the present study, it can be concluded that social and environmental factors do influence the level of career maturity of Coloured matriculants and it supports the findings of previous studies done on the subject of career maturity.