Vocational and Personality Dimensions of Adjudicated Delinquents

Woodbury, Roger; Pate, Dove Henry

doi:10.1080/00256307.1977.12022116

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“…Data relevant to the factorial composition of the CVMT have been reported by Westbrook (1976d) and Woodbury and Pate (1977). In both of these studies, all six of the CVMT subtest scores loaded highly on the same factor.…”

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“…In the Woodbury and Pate (1977) study, subtest scores on the CVMT were strongly negatively associated (-.79, -.66, -.72, -.76, -.84, -.86) with social maladjustment as measured by the Jesness Inventory (1966). These results followed up a previous study (Woodbury & Pate, 1974) that found that adjudicated delinquents of parents living together attained significantly higher scores on the CVMT than adjudicated delinquents of divorced parents.…”

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“…It has been used in a variety of research studies to investigate the factorial structure of career maturity (Westbrook, 1976d;Woodbury & Pate, 1977), to carry out career development studies with special populations (Woodbury & Pate, 1974), and to conduct criterionrelated validation studies of career maturity among high school students (Westbrook, 1976b(Westbrook, , 1976c. The CVMT has been recommended for use in program evaluation (Zucker, 1982), and it has been used to evaluate the effectiveness of career exploration programs (Mobley, 1984).…”

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Career Assessment and the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test

Westbrook

Elrod

Wynne

1996

Journal of Career Assessment

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the construct validity of the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test (CVMT; Westbrook, 1970; Westbrook & Parry-Hill, 1973a; Westbrook & Parry-Hill, 1973b). Eleventh-grade students and 12th-grade students were administered the CVMT-Duties subtest, the Self-Knowledge scale, and the Career Choice Questionnaire (CCQ). Teachers rated 11th-grade students' career choices in terms of appropriateness. Sample B students were retested in Grade 12 with the CVMT—Duties subtest and the Self- Knowledge scale. Scores on the CVMT correlated significantly with teacher evaluations of students' career choices, self-reported grade- point-averages, and education level planned, but not with self- report measures such as the Self-Knowledge scale and amount of thinking about one's career choice. The data provide support for the convergent and discriminant validity of the CVMT—Duties subtest.

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Career Assessment and the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test

Westbrook

Elrod

Wynne

1996

Journal of Career Assessment

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“…Some authors found that delinquents can benefit from vocational interventions focused on promoting work-related values and career realism (e.g. Woodbury & Pate, 1977), but most studies of the effects of work-oriented programs have not found positive changes in delinquent youth (Maskin, 1976;Munson, 1994;Pavlak, 1983;Pavlak & Kammer, 1985).…”

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Positive career orientation as an inhibitor of adolescent problem behaviour

Skorikov

Vondracek

2006

Journal of Adolescence

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This study tested the hypothesis that positive career orientation can prevent adolescents from engaging in or escalating problem behaviour. A 1‐year, longitudinal study was conducted on a sample of 234 junior‐high and high‐school students, who were 14.8 years old on the average in the beginning of the study. Using structural equation modeling, a developmental, two‐wave, two‐factor empirical model corresponding to the predicted relationships between career orientation and problem behaviour was found to fit the data well. According to the fitted model, positive career orientation had a significant negative longitudinal effect on problem behaviour. In contrast, we found no evidence in support of the assumption that career orientation can be affected by problematic behavioural tendencies.

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Vocational Interests of Criminal Offenders: A Typological and Demographic Investigation

Laufer

1980

Psychol Rep

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This study examined the vocational interests and personality characteristics of criminals (N — 201), using the Vocational Preference Inventory. The effectiveness of three criminal typologies and demographic information in differentiating and predicting levels of vocational interest was investigated. A multivariate analysis of variance yielded significant main effects with respect to racial, educational, and typological classifications. A significant interaction between race and typology is also discussed. In predicting and explaining vocational interest, multiple regression analysis and Pearson correlation coefficients illustrated the value of race, certain personality typologies, number of prior arrests, and number of years spent in prison. The results suggest that criminals express moderate interest in traditional occupations and have a differentiated set of vocational interests.

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Vocational and Personality Dimensions of Adjudicated Delinquents

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Career Assessment and the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test

Career Assessment and the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test

Positive career orientation as an inhibitor of adolescent problem behaviour

Vocational Interests of Criminal Offenders: A Typological and Demographic Investigation

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