Career Decision-making Difficulties Research Articles

Analysis of Relationships between High School Students’ Career Maturity, Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy, and Career Decision-Making Difficulties

The study analyzed the relationships between high school students’ career maturity, career decision-making difficulties, and career decision-making self-efficacy and aimed to investigate whether career maturity, career decision-making difficulties and career decision-making self-efficacy altered according to gender, type of school, and grade level. The study sample was composed of 665 high school students attending five different high schools in Bursa. The data collection tools included the Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire, the Career Maturity Scale, and the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Among quantitative research methods, a correlation model was applied. The analysis results revealed a weak but significant negative relationship between career maturity and career decision-making difficulties scale in terms of total scores and subscale scores. Additionally, there was a medium- and low-level significant negative relationship between the career decision-making difficulties scale total and subscale scores, and the career decision-making self-efficacy total and subscale scores. The subsequent analysis to describe the mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy demonstrated that career decision-making self-efficacy had a partial mediating role. Furthermore, male students were found to have a more disadvantaged status than did female students in terms of career maturity. Based on the fact that students’ career decision-making difficulties stemmed from the aspect of a lack of readiness, psycho education programs can be organized to determine the reasons for the lack of lack of readiness, find solutions, and provide the necessary information and skills. Future studies may focus on examining the reasons for the career maturity level differences.

The parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB): Psychometric properties in adolescents and young adults in the Italian context

Over the last few years, the role of parental career-related behaviors in career development has been identified in several studies. Specifically, these behaviors involve difficulties in the adolescents' career decision-making. In the literature, there is a validated scale for measuring parental career-related behaviors in the Italian language, but the validation refers to the Swiss context. Thus, the present study aimed to test the psychometric proprieties of the parental career-related behaviors questionnaire (PCB) in a sample of 323 adolescents and, after an item-adaption, in a sample of 374 university students in Italy. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed to support the three-dimensional structure of the original PCB. Moreover, associations between PCB and career decision-making difficulties were investigated. The results showed that the PCB is a useful instrument for measuring parental career-related behaviors also in the Italian context. Finally, the PCB dimensions were meaningfully related to career decision-making difficulties.

An Online Career Intervention for Promoting Chinese High School Students' Career Readiness.

To assist Chinese high school students in improving their career readiness and tackling career decision-making difficulties, we designed a synchronous online career intervention based on the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory during the Covid-19 pandemic. The online career intervention consisted of a series of career courses to develop high school students’ knowledge and skills in career planning, career assessments for exploring their vocational interests and academic self-concept, and a database providing basic information about university majors. To evaluate the intervention’s effectiveness, 957 10th grade students were recruited in the study, 601 participants (girls = 227, boys = 324) were randomly assigned to the experimental group (online career intervention), and 356 (girls = 159, boys = 197) participants were randomly assigned to the control group (no any career interventions). All participants completed a pre- and post-intervention assessment of their career maturity, vocational identity and career decision-making difficulties. Results indicated that the online intervention significantly increased high school students’ career readiness and reduced their career decision-making difficulties. The practical implications of this research for online career interventions directed at Chinese high school students are also discussed.

Supplemental Material for The Identification and Validation of Five Types of Career Indecision: A Latent Profile Analysis of Career Decision-Making Difficulties

Supplemental Material for The Identification and Validation of Five Types of Career Indecision: A Latent Profile Analysis of Career Decision-Making Difficulties

Well-being and Career Decision-making Difficulties Among Master’s Students: A Simultaneous Multi-Equation Modeling

Well-being and Career Decision-making Difficulties Among Master’s Students: A Simultaneous Multi-Equation Modeling

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The purpose of the article is to identify new ideas on the future career skills of talented students in secondary schools. The main idea of this article is to explain the ways to learn, apply and achieve academic results in new strategies and approaches in the systematic organization of career guidance. It is appropriate to improve soft skills working with gifted children according to learning outcomes. Each difficulty and problem is discussed with recommendations for consultation. The new models can eliminate new career choices and decision-making difficulties. The article presents ways to organize professional research work and develop difficult new proposals to overcome the difficulties encountered. Thus, this article focuses to develop a plan for independent work with gifted children, work to develop professional skills, to implement independent projects, to give talented children the opportunity to learn through accelerated learning, to try to increase the potential of your students. Key words: career guidance, talented children, systematic work, recommendations

For the Future Sustainable Career Development of College Students: Exploring the Impact of Core Self-Evaluation and Career Calling on Career Decision-Making Difficulty

As one of the important factors to predict future sustainable development, the difficulty of career decision-making has aroused widespread concern in psychological research. Core self-evaluation and career calling have a positive impact on college students’ career development, employees’ organizational behavior, life satisfaction, and life meaning, thus promoting individual sustainable development. Based on the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this study mainly discusses the positive role of core self-evaluation and career calling in overcoming college students’ career decision-making difficulties, which provides support for strengthening theory and proposing educational countermeasures. This study investigates the relationship among core self-evaluation, career calling, and career decision-making difficulties for 483 Chinese college students. The results show that core self-evaluation positively predicts career calling, while core self-evaluation and career calling negatively predict career decision-making difficulties. Accordingly, career calling plays a partial mediating role between core self-evaluation and career decision-making difficulties. Therefore, college students’ career calling can be enhanced by improving their core self-evaluation, so as to further solve the difficulties in career decision-making. In the future, effective strategies should be taken to reduce the career decision-making difficulty for students’ sustainable development.

How Parenting Styles Link Career Decision-Making Difficulties in Chinese College Students? The Mediating Effects of Core Self-Evaluation and Career Calling.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties in college students, and uncovered the mediating roles of core self-evaluation and career calling. A total of 1,127 undergraduates were recruited to complete the questionnaires about parenting styles, core self-evaluation, career calling, and career decision-making difficulties. The results showed that: (1) Positive and negative parenting styles could positively predict career decision-making difficulties in college students. (2) Core self-evaluation and career calling mediated the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties. Sequential dual mediators only found in which positive paternal and maternal parenting styles predict career decision-making difficulties through core self-evaluation and career calling. (3) Further analysis revealed gender difference in the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties. The relation between paternal positive parenting style and career decision-making difficulties was significant in male students, but absent in female students; the relation between maternal positive parenting and career decision-making difficulties and the relation between paternal negative parenting and career calling were significant in female students, but absent in male students; and the relation between career calling and career decision-making difficulties was greater in male than in female. The current study expanded and deepened those existing understandings about the relationship between parenting styles and adolescents’ career decisions, so as to further reveal its internal mechanism and provide more reasonable suggestions and targeted guidance for career counseling.

Validation of a French Version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire: Relationships With Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy

The aim of this study was to validate the French version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and to assess its measurement invariance across gender, age groups, countries, and student versus career counseling samples. We also examined the sensitivity of this instrument to discriminate a career counseling population from a general student sample. Third, we studied the relationship between career decision-making difficulties, career decision-making self-efficacy, and self-esteem in a sample of 1,748 French and French-speaking Swiss participants. A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the overall hierarchical structure of the CDDQ. Multigroup analysis indicated that the level of invariance across groups almost always reached configural, metric, and scalar invariance. Differences between countries were very small, whereas differences between the general population and career counseling subsamples were much larger. Both self-esteem and self-efficacy significantly predicted career decision-making difficulties. Moreover, as expected, self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between self-esteem and career decision-making difficulties.

The Mediating Effect of Social Support on The Relation between Family Strength and Career Decision-Making Difficulties of University Students

The Mediating Effect of Social Support on The Relation between Family Strength and Career Decision-Making Difficulties of University Students

Career decision-making difficulties among university students: does employment status matter?

PurposeThe study adapted the Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire for the Arab world. The purpose of the study was to test a popular but scientifically unverified belief that people who were employed could experience less CDD.Design/methodology/approachCareer Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 500 university students to analyze CDD among full-time and part-time students and examine whether employment status determines to what extent they experience these difficulties. Univariate and bivariate analyses were used.FindingsEmployment status had no statistically significant effect on students' perceptions of CDD; 6 demographic variables were significantly correlated with CDD (gender, age, income, university grade-point average, satisfaction with the current major and social status); and students had dysfunctional beliefs about the career decision-making process, lack self-awareness, and had inconsistent information about internal and external difficulties.Research limitations/implicationsUniversities should design adequate career interventions before and after graduation and employers should implement human resource policies that reduce CDD and their negative impact on the workplace. Other methods of data collection and analysis could also be useful in the future, such as interviews. While scope of the study was acceptable, comparing countries and public versus private institutions could produce valuable findings.Practical implicationsThe study tested and validated ACDDQ which could be used as diagnostic instrument to design career interventions and training programs. Employers need to allocate resources in the recruitment process to help potential recruits to understand the nature of work, processes, and requirements. Educators need to provide better coaching and career education for students, especially those in senior years.Social implicationsUnderstanding career decision-making difficulties and factors that influence them will influence long-term human resource management, especially productivity, turn over and job satisfaction.Originality/valueThe study examined the important issue of difficulties in making career decisions among two groups of university students. With more employees go back to college for more education, it was not clear in the literature how career decisions might differ between the two groups. The issue was under-researched, especially within Arab countries.

An analysis of major and career decision-making difficulties of exploratory college students in a Mid-Atlantic University

The nexus between an academic field of study (major) and a career remains nebulous for most undergraduate college students who seek the best-fit major to prepare them for the right career path. Using the CDDQ, Career Decision-making Difficulty Questionnaire (Gati et al in J Counsel Psychol 43:510–526, 1996; A taxonomy of difficulties in career decision making, 2001), a paired sample t test was conducted to analyze the impact of a major and career exploration course (COM-200) on 54 undeclared first-year college students in a Mid-Atlantic university. The CDDQ was used to test the hypothesis that at the end of the course, students’ career decision-making difficulties would be reduced in each of the three major cluster scores: (1) Lack of Readiness, (2) Lack of Information, and (3) Inconsistent Information. Findings from the study indicate statistically significant difference between the pretest and posttest analysis of the career decision-making difficulty for each of the variables studied.

The Development of the CASVE-CQ: A CIP Perspective on Assessing Decision-Making Progress

The CASVE-Cycle Questionnaire (CASVE-CQ) was developed to assess career decision-making progress and operationalizes the Cognitive Information Processing Theory’s CASVE Cycle decision-making approach. Development occurred across three unique studies. In the pilot study’s college student sample ( N = 323) and initial adult sample ( N = 427), two exploratory factor analyses supported a theoretically consistent six-factor solution. A confirmatory factor analysis in the second adult sample ( N = 342) confirmed the factor structure, resulting in a 42-item measure with six subscales. A second-order factor analysis assessed the utility of a CASVE-CQ total score. Consistent with theory, this model did not converge, and a total score for the CASVE-CQ was not supported. Supporting the validity of the CASVE-CQ as a decision-making progress measure, greater decision-making activity in each phase/subscale was associated with lower career decision-making difficulties, stable vocational identity, and greater career commitment. Continued test development steps and theory, research, and practice implications, are discussed.

Career Decision-Making Difficulties and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Career-Related Parental Behaviors and Career Adaptability

According to the Career Construction Model of Adaptation, career decision-making difficulties (CDD) and life satisfaction are important adaptation results, and career adaptability is a crucial resource to attain positive adaptation results. This study focused on the influence of parental career-related behaviors on career adaptability, CDD and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of career adaptability between parental career-related behaviors and CDD and life satisfaction. Five hundred thirteen Italian students (182 of middle school, 141 of high school, and 190 of university) were involved. The results showed that parental support influences CDD and life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through the mediation of career adaptability. Parental interference and lack of engagement have a positive direct effect on CDD. Finally, CDD and life satisfaction are significantly and negatively associated. The data support the key role of parental support and career adaptability in CDD and life satisfaction. Practical implications are discussed.

The Impact of Age and Type of School in Career Decision-Making Difficulties

The research investigated age, type of school and career decision-making difficulties. It used a purposeful drawn sample of 341 secondary school students in Delta State. To guide the study, two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated. The Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) by Gati, Krausz and Osipow (1996) was used for data collection. Data obtained were analysed by inferential statistics of mean, standard deviation and t-test analysis. The results revealed no significant differences in terms of age and type of school attended, but there was a significant difference between private and public schools in seven of the ten distinct categories. Discussion of the findings, conclusions and recommendations are provided. Received: 24 September 2020 / Accepted: 13 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021

The Relationship between College Students’ Resilience and Career Decision-Making Difficulties: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability

The arrival of the post-epidemic era has brought more uncertainties to college students’ job search and employment. Therefore, it is necessary to help students how to make career choices in an uncertain environment. Based on the career adaptation model theory, this research proposes a relationship model of resilience, career adaptability, and career decision-making difficulties. Through a survey of 666 Chinese college students, it is found that resilience and career adaptability can reduce students’ career decision-making difficulties. Career adaptability plays a mediating role between resilience and career decision-making difficulties. Finally, it points out the importance of paying attention to the positive factors of students in career decision-making and puts forward some suggestions.

Coping Strategies of Decision-Making Difficulties and Psychological Resilience of the Gifted in Secondary School

Interests, abilities, and values may play central roles in the career decision-making of gifted adolescents, so an examination of the career decisions is very important. This research aims to examine the relationship between coping strategies of difficulties in decision-making, the decision-making difficulties, and psychological resilience of the gifted, and determine the differences between male and female in these variables. The total participants in this study were 80 students from secondary school who responded to the coping strategies of difficulties in career decision-making scale, and the decision making difficulties scale, and the psychological resilience scale for the gifted by the researcher. This study used the Pearson's correlation to determine the relationship between the variables, and T.test to determine the differences according to the gender. The results showed that there is statistically significant correlation between coping strategies of difficulties in career decision-making, and decision making difficulties (r=0.631), and psychological resilience (r=0.679). In addition, there are significant differences in coping strategies of career decision-making in the depending on others, withdrawal, and indecisiveness in favor of females, and in vigilance, impulsiveness, and procrastination in favor of males. There are significant differences in psychological resilience in favor of males in this study. Based on the finding of this study it can contribute to the improvement of the secondary school counselling programs about positive career decision-making strategies. In summary, the findings suggest that high level of psychological resilience can contribute to coping career decision-making difficulties, such as impulsiveness, and procrastination, especially with gifted adolescents.

Career Decision-Making Difficulties on High School Students

Career Decision-Making Difficulties on High School Students

Simplifying the Measurement of College Students' Career Planning: the Development of Career Student Planning Scale during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

We created a new, 8-item scale called "Career Student Planning Scale (CSPS)" for a valid and reliable measure regarding college students' career planning during a traumatic event, such as a pandemic. CSPS is conceptually similar to the career decision-making difficulty questionnaire (CDDQ) and the career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) scale. CSPS leans towards questions about college students' perceptions about career planning, rather than intuitions about career decision-making; it also inquires about how participants conceptualize about their career plans to be correct, rather than the more extreme idea about how their intuitions are correct: we developed this scale to capture the latter construct. We included the coronavirus anxiety scale (CAS), CDDQ, the general procrastination scale (GPS), and the CDSE short form (CDSE-SF) as covariates to ensure that CSPS has distinct effects on their career paths. Our findings indicate the CSPS has acceptable psychometric properties and demonstrates a valuable input to those measures.

Occupational themes, ambiguity tolerance level and coping strategies in career decision-making

The process of career adaptation is counted as a very significant topic, especially regarding career counseling. The aim of that article was to analyze the dependence between type of vocational personality, ambiguity tolerance level and styles of coping with career indecision making. There have been 227 students examined. Each of the examined individuals has got a vocational type of personality referring to gained outcomes from WOPZ questionnaire based on J.L. Holland’s model of vocational personality. Types of vocational personality have been being analyzed according to ambiguity tolerance in career decisions making (by using The Career Decision Ambiguity Tolerance Scale, CDAT) and strategies of coping with career indecision (with usage of Coping with Career Decision-making Difficulties, CCDD). The study has revealed that gender is not associated with personal dispositions as those mentioned above. Individuals characterized by Social type of vocational personality tend to seek help more often than those characterized by other types of vocational personality. Artistic type turned out to be linked to unproductive style of coping with career indecision more than any other type of vocational personality while individuals described as Enterprising type tend to have reversed tendency. Moreover, the present study has indicated that dependence between ambiguity tolerance and productive style of coping with career decisions making does occur.