A STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAREER MATURITY AND SELF-ESTEEM AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS

Career maturity is crucial at every stage of life. However, secondary school students have a lot of difficulty selecting a career. The primary goal of schooling is the "improvement of vocational efficiency." Career-ready people are needed if we are to accomplish these goals. Students' self-esteem is also influenced by their career maturity. The goal of the current study was to investigate the relationship between secondary school students' self-esteem and professional maturity. The J&K Board of School Education's Dhounthly Educational Block provided a sample of 50 secondary school pupils for the study. The data was gathered using the Career Maturity Inventory by Crites and Savickas from 2011, the Self Esteem Inventory by Drs. Santosh Dhar and UpinderDhar from 2015, and other sources. The association between career maturity and self-esteem was determined using the coefficient of correlation, and the difference in career maturity between male and female secondary school students was determined using the t-value. The study came to the conclusion that self esteem and career maturity are positively correlated. Compared to women, men are more career-savvy.