A Study of Adolescent Career Thoughts

This study used ordinary least squares multipleregressions to examine 10th- 11th and 12th-gradeCareer and Technical High (CTC) School students'gender student disability student grade highesteducation level of most educated parent parentalattachment and parental involvement on careerthoughts and its constructs of Decision MakingConfusion (DCM) Commitment Anxiety (CA) andExternal Conflict (EC). In addition Cohen's d effectsizes and confidence intervals were used to examinefor statistically significant difference in 11th- and12th-grade CTC high school students' Career ThoughtsInventory (CTI) dysfunctional career thinking totalscores and subscale scores of DMC CA and ECcompared to 11th- and 12th-grade academic high schoolstudents CTI global and subscale scores. Results for376 CTC high school students suggested that parentalattachment subscale scores of Trust and Alienationcontributed to dysfunctional career thinking scoresand its subscale scores. Findings between 299 CTChigh school students and 396 academic high schoolstudents indicate no practical significance forcareer thoughts total and CA scores but practicalsignificance for DCM and EC scores.