This study investigated the vocational maturity of lower-and middle-class adolescent boys. The Readiness for Vocational Planning Scale was administered to 375 students in Grades 8 through 12. The mean scores show that the lowerclass students were slower in developing vocational maturity. A univariate analysis of covariance indicated a significant difference among the groups and Scheff6 post hoc comparisons found the differences to be in Grades 10, 11, and 12 between lower-class and middle-class students without regard to race. Lower-class black and white students did not differ significantly in their vocational maturity throughout the five grades. SOS

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