| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 94 === In recent years, career maturity is a topic to be discussed, and it is also an important factor effecting personal career development and career choice. Studies have shown that personal with higher career maturity manifest better career development, career preparation and future adaptation. Graduate students are adults and are facing life development and achievement challenge. In graduate school, students learn to cultivate interests, to be orientated toward employment, and to select the appropriate career choice.
This research aims to explore effects of personal and situational characteristics on career maturity. Surveyed questionnaire which includes self-efficacy, internal-external control, mentorship, social support, and career maturity was mailed to a stratifid random sample of graduate students. Three hundred and night questionnaires were returned. Reliability, correlation, and regression analysis are used to analyze the data. The results indicate that：
1. Mentorship and social support do not predict career maturity. However respondents who are female, have previous work experience, or are high on internal locus of control report higher degree of career maturity.
2. Mentorship and social support do not predict involvement and commitment of career choice. However respondents who have previous work experience, or are high on internal locus of control report higher degree of involvement and commitment of career choice.
3. Mentorship and social support do not predict independence of career choice. However respondents who are science and engineering college students, have previous work experience, are high on self-efficacy, or are high on internal locus of control report higher degree of independence of career choice.
4. Mentorship and social support do not predict orientation of career choice. However respondents who are female, or are high on internal locus of control report higher degree of orientation of career choice.
5. Mentorship and social support do not predict preference of career choice. However respondents who have previous work experience, are low on socioeconomics status, or are high on internal locus of control report higher degree of preference of career choice.
Based on the findings, we suggest that educational institution and graduate students may pay more attention to the students’ future career attitude, cultivate work experience, strengthen self-efficacy, enhance the mentorship of graduate students and adviser, and provide social support. Thus, it can help graduate students have mature career development and successful career.
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