Abstract
This study intends to elaborate upon difficulties in career decisions of high school students with different locus of control. 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students aged 14-19, 282 (%55.4) females, 227 (%44.6) males totaling 509 participants involved in research located in the south of Turkey. Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (RIEFCS) were used to collect data. One-way analysis of variance was conducted to compare the participants' career decision- making difficulties in accordance with the locus of control. The findings indicate that total points obtained from the scale of career decision-making difficulties of the participants with external locus of control and lack of information of the scale with inconsistent information sub-dimensions have a higher score average than students with internal locus of control. Individuals with external locus of control experienced more difficulty in the process of decision-making due to the lack of necessary information or inconsistent information. This study contributes to practitioners working in the field of career for theory or application.
Highlights
Adolescence spanning high school years is a critical period in the course of life
Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ): The scale developed for high school students by Gati & Saka [15] is a five-point Likert-type scale adapted to Turkish by Bacanlı [4]
In order to examine the participants’ career decision-making difficulties by their locus of control, a standard deviation score (Sd=3.46) was added to the arithmetic mean of locus of control scores of the study group ( x =11.42); arithmetic mean ( x =14.88) and the ones above were identified as external locus of control, a standard deviation score (Ss =3.46) was subtracted from the arithmetic mean ( x =11.42) and the arithmetic mean ( x = 14.88) and the ones were identified as internal locus of control
Summary
Adolescence spanning high school years is a critical period in the course of life. During this period, important decisions are taken for life and adolescents are expected to gain an occupational identity. Choice of profession is one of the basic developmental tasks for adolescents. Adolescents question which profession they will be heading to and strive to obtain an occupational identity. Since rapid changes at the present time and technological developments affect individuals’ perceptions regarding career and occupation, these factors can cause difficulties while making career decisions. Mounting evidence has revealed that adolescents and college students have difficulty in career decision-making [1, 2, 5, 13, 29, 32, 37, 45, and 47]. Individuals experiencing career decision-making difficulties may make an inappropriate decision or impede the decision-making process [17]
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