Affiliation:
1. Arkansas State University
2. University of Arkansas
Abstract
Employment success in the 21st century requires that students with disabilities possess career maturity and personal flexibility. Past research, however, has indicated that students with disabilities experience a significant "developmental lag" with respect to career maturity. To determine whether that conclusion still pertained, this study compared the career development levels of 95 special education and 99 general education students. Although both groups had optimistic career outlooks, evidence indicated that special education students had significantly lower scores than their general-education peers on career decision-making self-efficacy, career outcome expectations, career exploration intentions, and vocational identity. Implications of the findings for educational and rehabilitation programming are discussed.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Applied Psychology,Rehabilitation
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