This paper presents the results of a study designed to determine whether or not Career Choice Attitudes and Career Choice Competencies of black 9th-graders are interrelated as hypothesized in the Crites (1974, 1978) model of career maturity. To test hypotheses derived from the Crites model, the Career Maturity Inventory was administered to 122 9th-grade pupils. The intercorrelations of Career Choice Competencies were found to be lower than predicted. The Career Choice Attitudes and Career Competencies dimensions were found to be more highly correlated with each other than was hypothesized by the Crites model, but consistent with the results of other investigations.
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