ABSTRACT
This chapter will begin with a brief overview of the history and initial conceptualization of the constructs of career development and maturity. The review, like the research, will focus on the measurement of career maturity in adolescence and young adulthood but will also include discussion of the related but more recently elaborated ideas of career adjustment and adaptability in adulthood. Next, the major measures of the constructs will be reviewed; measures of career maturity in adolescence and young adulthood will be addressed first, followed by those of career development in adulthood. The discussion of each instrument will highlight recent developments regarding that instrument in the area of psychometric data, extensions to new populations, and recent critical reviews. New instruments will be presented and their current status summarized. Finally, current issues in the conceptualization and measurement of career maturity will be discussed, as will the implications of these for theory and research. The last chapter of this book, by Howard E. A. Tinsley and Diane J. Tinsley, will provide an expanded context for the study of career development and maturity, as well as career decision making.
