Career Maturity Among High School Students in Medan

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10.2991/icosop-16.2017.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Career Maturity, concern, curiosity, confidence, consultation

Abstract

This purpose of this research was to know about career maturity of high school students. Career maturity needs to be examined considering many students not ready to choose a career direction when later graduated high school. As for this research involve 206 students from several schools in Medan City. We used the Career Maturity Inventory form C by Crites & Savickas [8] who were adapted into Indonesian language. CMI Form C provides a total score for career choice readiness, and consist of four dimension as follows concern, curiosity, confidence, and consultation. The results showed Career maturity of high school students in Medan in middle category. The dimensions of Concern and Consultation are higher than the dimensions of Curiousity and Confidence. This indicates that high school students are still not looking for more information about their career, and also not confidence about their ability. Because of that increased awareness of careers is indispensable to increase the maturity of high school student career.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rika Eliana
AU  - Sri Supriyantini
AU  - Josetta M.R. Tuapattinaja
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Career Maturity Among High School Students in Medan
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 230
EP  - 233
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosop-16.2017.34
DO  - 10.2991/icosop-16.2017.34
ID  - Eliana2016/11
ER  -