The Effects of Decision-Making Style and Cognitive Thought Patterns on Negative Career Thoughts

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheba Paivandy ◽  
Emily E. Bullock ◽  
Robert C. Reardon ◽  
F. Donald Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Career Thoughts ◽  
Negative Career Thoughts ◽  
Thought Patterns

scholarly journals The relationship between cognitive ability, emotional intelligence and negative career thoughts: A study of career-exploring adults

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Dahl ◽  
Frans Cilliers
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Career Thoughts ◽  
Negative Career Thoughts ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Ability Emotional Intelligence ◽  
The Relationship

Orientation: Career exploration can be a stressful experience, often manifested by negative career thoughts. In this article, the factors which influence the ability to cope with negative thinking are investigated.Research purpose: This study investigated the relationship between cognitive ability, emotional intelligence and negative thoughts pertaining to career in a sample of unemployed, non-student adults.Motivation for study: There is a need for research which investigates the psychological factors that contribute to successful career exploration and decision-making. Cognitive ability is one such factor, whilst emotional intelligence is another whose validity is not yet well established.Research design, approach and method: A survey design and quantitative procedures were used in gathering and analysing data gathered from 193 non-student, middle-aged adults attending a community-based career exploration programme in British Columbia, Canada. Cognitive ability, emotional intelligence and negative career thoughts before and after a career exploration programme were measured.Main findings: Neither cognitive ability nor any aspect of emotional intelligence predicted negative career thinking change. Cognitive ability predicted overall negative career thoughts as well as decision-making confusion, but only after the programme. The ability to manage emotions, however, predicted negative career thoughts both before and after the career decision-making programme.Practical/managerial implications: The managing emotions component of emotional intelligence is significantly associated with negative career thoughts. These findings suggest that career counselling requires that the role of emotions and their influence on behaviours must be given more consideration. Industrial and organisational (IO) psychologists would benefit from engaging in programmes that train them to assist clients in becoming more aware of, and increasing, their own emotional intelligence.Contribution/value-add: The study added insights to the field of career psychology regarding the ability of emotional intelligence to predict important outcomes regarding the dimensions of emotional intelligence (EI) as measured by a performance-based test predicting negative career thoughts amongst the non-student, adult population.

scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEGATIVE CAREER THOUGHTS AND SELF-EFFICACY WITH CAREER DECISION-MAKING DIFFICULTIES AMONG FIRST YEAR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF UPM

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (14) ◽  
pp. 162-172
Author(s):  
Nur Azreen Md Sanusi ◽  
Zanariah Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
First Year ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Thoughts ◽  
Inconsistent Information ◽  
Negative Career Thoughts ◽  
Lack Of Information

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between negative career thoughts and self-efficacy with career decision-making difficulties among first-year undergraduate students of UPM. The sample for this study consisted of 368 first-year undergraduate students of UPM and participants were recruited using stratified random sampling. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information. Career Thoughts Inventory was utilized in this study to measure negative career thoughts. General Self-efficacy Scale was utilized to measure self-efficacy. Other than that, the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire was utilized to measure career decision-making difficulties. The results revealed that most of the respondents had a high level of self-efficacy (62.2%). Pearson correlation analysis demonstrated that there was a positive significant relationship between negative career thoughts (decision-making confusion) and career decision-making difficulties (lack of information; r = 0.595, p < 0.01 and inconsistent information; r = 0.579, p < 0.01). Besides, there was also a significant positive relationship between negative career thoughts (commitment anxiety) and career decision-making difficulties (lack of information; r = 0.588, p < 0.01 and inconsistent information; r = 0.572, p < 0.01). In addition, there was a significant negative relationship between self-efficacy and career decision-making difficulties (lack of information; r = -0.388, p < 0.01, inconsistent information; r = -0.298, p < 0.01). Therefore, the findings of this study concluded that negative career thoughts and self-efficacy are important to understand the patterns of difficulties in career decision-making among first-year undergraduate students of UPM. Furthermore, further research could be expanded in different academic institutions in another region with a bigger sample to promote a better generalization of findings and yield more reliable data.

Extended Emulation Theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Rade
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
External Input ◽  
Motor Action ◽  
Abstract Thought ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
Stored Information ◽  
Short Term Prediction ◽  
The Mind

Emulators are internal models, first evolved for prediction in perception to shorten the feedback on motor action. However, the selective pressure on perception is to improve the fitness of decision-making, driving the evolution of emulators towards context-dependent payoff representation and integration of action planning, not enhanced prediction as is generally assumed. The result is integrated perceptual, memory, representational, and imaginative capacities processing external input and stored internal input for decision-making, while simultaneously updating stored information. Perception, recall, imagination, theory of mind, and dreaming are the same process with different inputs. Learning proceeds via scaffolding on existing conceptual infrastructure, a weak form of embodied cognition. Discrete concepts are emergent from continuous dynamics and are in a perceptual, not representational, format. Language is also in perceptual format and enables precise abstract thought. In sum, what was initially a primitive system for short-term prediction in perception has evolved to perform abstract thought, store and retrieve memory, understand others, hold embedded action plans, build stable narratives, simulate scenarios, and integrate context dependence into perception. Crucially, emulators co-evolved with the emergence of societies, producing a mind-society system in which emulators are dysfunctional unless integrated into a society, which enables their complexity. The Target Emulator System, evolved initially for honest signaling, produces the emergent dynamics of the mind-society system and spreads variation-testing of behavior and thought patterns across a population. The human brain is the most dysfunctional in isolation, but the most effective given its context.

Mindfulness and Decision-Making Style: Predicting Career Thoughts and Vocational Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Galles ◽  
Janet Lenz ◽  
Gary W. Peterson ◽  
James P. Sampson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vocational Identity ◽  
Career Thoughts

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Negative Career Thoughts

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghyuck Lee ◽  
Gary W. Peterson ◽  
James P. Sampson ◽  
Meejin Park
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Career Thoughts ◽  
Negative Career Thoughts ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison

Avoidance of Miserly Information Processing: Indirect Effects

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith E. Stanovich ◽  
Richard F. West ◽  
Maggie E. Toplak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Temporal Discounting ◽  
Rational Thinking ◽  
Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Argument Evaluation ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
History Of ◽  
Knowledge Calibration

Chapter 7 discussed four subtests that are direct measures of the avoidance of miserly processing on the CART. Chapter 8 discusses how the CART also contains six other subtests that assess the ability to avoid suboptimal thought patterns that arise indirectly from miserly thinking tendencies. Three of those subtests assess an important component of axiomatic utility theory: the ability to avoid being affected by irrelevant context when decision-making. The three subtests that measure the ability to avoid this tendency are: the Framing subtest, the Anchoring subtest, and the Preference Anomalies subtest. Three other subtests are described in this chapter. The avoidance of myside bias is a fundamental component of performance in most discussions of rational thinking. We used our original version of an Argument Evaluation subtest to measure this component of rational thinking. The ability to avoid overconfidence is measured on the CART by the Knowledge Calibration subtest. Finally, the Rational Temporal Discounting subtest assesses the ability to pass up an immediate reward for a delayed larger one. The history of each subtest is described, as well as a large study of each subtest in which correlations with cognitive ability and thinking dispositions are examined.

The Relationship Between Career Thoughts and Adjustment for Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Lustig ◽  
Yonghong Jade Xu ◽  
David R. Strauser ◽  
Michael M. MacKay
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Career Thoughts ◽  
Career Thoughts Inventory ◽  
Dysfunctional Career Thoughts ◽  
The Relationship

The study investigated the relationship between the psychosocial adjustment and dysfunctional career thoughts for adults with multiple sclerosis. The Reactions to Impairment and Disability Inventory measured psychosocial adjustment, and the Career Thoughts Inventory measured dysfunctional career thoughts. The results found that (a) higher levels of depression were associated with higher levels of decision-making confusion and commitment anxiety and (b) higher levels of adjustment were associated with lower levels of decision-making confusion. Rehabilitation counselor implications are discussed.

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