Date of Graduation

1997

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Type

EdD

College

College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences

Department

Not Listed

Committee Chair

Edward Etzel

Committee Co-Chair

Roy Tunick

Committee Member

Andrew Ostrow

Committee Member

Dana Brooks

Committee Member

William Alsop

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the career maturity of junior college student-athletes. Specifically investigated was the relationship of demographic (e.g., gender, age, race, and year in school) and psychological variables (e.g., athletic identity, career self-efficacy, and career development locus of control) and their relationship to career maturity. Participants included 259 (74 females and 178 males) junior-college student-athletes. Overall, 145 freshmen and 114 sophomores completed the survey. The majority of the participants (n = 185) were Caucasian and 74 were African-American. Each student-athlete completed a survey packet consisting of the demographic information questionnaire, the Career Maturity Inventory, the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale, the Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Career Development Locus of Control Scale. Results revealed that the demographic variables accounted for a significant amount of the variance in predicting career maturity of junior college student-athletes (r =.29, R{dollar}\\sp2{dollar} =.09). The psychological variables accounted for a significant amount of the variance in predicting career maturity (M = 16.3, SD = 3.6) scores of participants (r =.41, R{dollar}\\sp2{dollar} =.17). The seven variables predicted a significant proportion of the variance in career maturity scores (R{dollar}\\sp2{dollar} =.26, {dollar}F\\ (7,\\ 251)=12.43,{dollar} p {dollar}

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