Correlation between Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy and Career Indecision on Final Year College Students

Abstract

Career Indecision is a condition when students has difficulty to make career decision that will be pursued. Final years college students, are vulnerable to feel career indecision, it causes students to be unsure of his ability to pursue career after graduation. Self-efficacy known as an important aspect of career decision-making process, which is can help college student to determine his or her career choice. However, previous studies have shown the inconsistent result about relationship between career decision making self-efficacy with career indecision. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine again the relationship between career decision making self-efficacy and career indecision among final year’s college students in Indonesia. Method: Using incidental sampling, this study get 328 final year college students as respondents. To measure Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy and Career Indecision, this study using Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSES) and Career Decision Scale (CDS). Result: Result of this study using Spearman correlation test shown that, there is significant correlation between Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy and Career Indecision (r = -0,143 p = 0,010,01).Suggestion: The implication of this study is college student with high career decision making self-efficacy can decrease their career indecision.