Career Maturity:A Correlational Study among Girl Adolescents

Choice of career is one of the important tasks in adolescent developmental process. The present study aims to find out the relationship between attitude toward and competence of career maturity and different dimensions of personality, home and school environment among adolescents. The sample comprised 200 girls of 14-15 years, single child, from English medium schools, urban residence, nuclear family type and hailing from Bengali Hindu religion. On each of them, Indian adaptation of Career Maturity Inventory (Gupta, 1989), School Environment Inventory (Mishra, 1983), Home Environment Inventory (Mishra, 1989) and Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck, 1975) were administered. Data were analyzed using product moment correlation coefficient. There is a significant relationship between extraversion (positively), cognitive encouragement, creative stimulation, acceptance (positively) components of school environment and Control, punishment components of home environment (negatively) with that of attitude toward career maturity and all dimensions of competency in career decision making. Deprivation of privileges from home is negatively related with all dimensions of competency in career maturity among adolescents.