Abstract

This study was investigated the degree of career attitude maturity according to personal characteristics and psychological variables of high school students in Korea. The subjects for this study consisted of 2007 students from 7 high schools in the metropolitan area of Seoul. We measured the relationship between constructs of career attitude maturity-decisiveness, goal orientation, confidence, preparation, and independence-and personal characteristics-sex differences, curricular, and the grade level-and psychological variables-self esteem, work value, and locus of control-. The results of the degree of career attitude maturity in this study was different to previous studies. Generally, female students had a high scores in career sttitude maturity than male, but the results of this study seems that female tend to score higher on the construct fo goal orientation and preparation and that male tend to score higher on the construct of confidence and independence. Academic high school students tend to score higher than vocational high school students. There was no differences in the grade level of high schoolers. As a results of relationship between the career attitude maturity and psychological variables, the students in high self-esteem tend to score higher than low self-esteem. and intrinsic work value to score higher than extrinsic, and internal locus of control to score higher than external locus of control.