A Study on High-school Girl’s Career Maturity and Its Related Variables.

여고생의 진로성숙과 관련변인에 관한 연구

This study examined the relations between home-environment, mother´s vacational environment, vocational sense and the career maturity of their child in girls high school. Also the study tried to help the children find the proper vocation and to guide them in school. The subjects of this were 514 couples of mothers and their children in girl´s school (2nd grade) living in In-cheon. Statistics used for data analysis are Frequency, Percentage, One-way ANOVA, DMR(Ducn´s Multiple Range Test), T-test and Pearson´s correlation coefficient. The main results were as follows: 1. To think of the career maturity of child in home-environment variable, it differed significant-ly by mother´s standard of education and father´s vocation. 2. According to the mother´s vocational environment variablees, career maturity of child differed significantly by work-state the degree of vocational satisfication. 3. To think of the general tendency of mother´s view of vocation the attitude of choosing vocaion is independent whether mother has work or not. The attitude of work and sex-role is openhearted whether mother has work or not. The attitude of work-value is more important in the case of mother´s having work. The attitude of work-respect is formal in both case. In general whether mother has work or not there´s no difference in the mother´s vocational sense. 4. The corelations between the mother´s vocational sense and career maturity differed significantly by the attitude of chdoosing vocation. 5. The career maturity of high school student differed significantly whether they are commercial high school student or academic high school student. Based on the findings it is recommended the mother´s age the standard of education the degree of vocational satisfication and the view of vocation are more influenced on the child´s career maturity than the mother´s work itself.