Questionnaire Constructing And Influencing Factors Of Career Maturity Of Youth Before Entering The Workforce

Career maturity refers to the degree of suitability and practicality of one's preparation for searching for a job, and includes two fundamental dimensions: attitude and cognition. It is an index for measuring how one gets along with his job. How one's career maturity is before he enters the workforce affects directly his job choosing and the following , such as his adaptation to a new job, satisfaction with job and success in working.Referring to "career development inventory" of D.E.Super and interviewing, by the principles and techniques of psychometrics and statistics, such as investigation and factor analysis, this study revises and validates "career development inventory" of John O.Crites, and works out a career maturity questionnaire suited to Chinese youth.Based on the questionnaire of career maturity constructed by us, this paper makes a study on the factors(demography and the locus of control(LOC)) influencing the youth's career maturity before they enter the workforce, and the findings are as follows:(1) Age, area and family-income have a significant impact on the degree of one's career maturity, and the result of our study on family-income is opposite to that of study abroad. Gender and education have no significant impact on the degree of one's career maturity, but according to most study abroad, there is salient difference between male and female.(2) The average scores of questionnaire of career maturity shows that the score of external LOC is the highest, the score of internal LOC is the lowest, and the score of the external and internal LOC is in the middle. There is salient difference between internal LOC and external LOC.In the end, this paper points out the theoretical and practical significance of this study and proposes the prospective orientation.