Multivariate Analysis of Career Maturity for Academic Performance and Dependence Proneness Among 10+2 Level Students

Career planning is very essential for the peaceful living and quality of life. Therefore, every youth at the age of 18 with the attainment of legal right of adulthood, should be very careful about the selection of his career so that it may suit him fully and he feels work satisfaction and the desired earning of money according to his need. In the present study an attempt has been made to examine empirically that whether or not academic performance and dependence proneness independently or in interaction with each other are capable of explaining variance in career maturity of adolescents studying in class XI. Employing an ex-post facto, non-experimental factorial design with two level of academic performance: high and low and two levels of dependence proneness, high and low were considered in the study. Employing the stratified random sampling technique 600 students of class XI were drawn from different schools of U.P. Board of Meerut district. The results indicated the significant main effect of academic performance and dependence proneness on career maturity. The two interactional effects could not turn out to be statistically significant.