CAREER MATURITY - THE CONSTRUCTS VALIDITY, VITALITY, AND VIABILITY

Career maturity is a useful construct for studying adolescents, but it has limits. Professional counselors need to integrate personality and decision-making style into research on career maturity as well as giv e more than a passing nod to developmental theory. They cannot study c areer development at the individual level alone; conte,ut matters and is an integral part of career development. The amount of variance in i ndividual career development accounted for by context and change may b e so great that longitudinal research on individuals may not be worthw hile.