Intolerance of Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Career Indecision: A Mediation Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 106907272110025
Author(s):  
Consuelo Arbona ◽  
Weihua Fan ◽  
Ayoung Phang ◽  
Norma Olvera ◽  
Marcel Dios
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Intolerance Of Uncertainty ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Path Analyses

Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) refers to the tendency to fear the unknown and to worry excessively about potential future negative outcomes. In the career decision-making process, college students experience uncertainty regarding the future of occupational opportunities and the evolution of their interests and capabilities. Anxiety is a well-established predictor of career indecision. Therefore, this study examined the role of anxiety as a mediator in the relation of IU and rumination to three dimensions of career decision making difficulties among college students ( N = 678). Results of path analyses indicated that as hypothesized, after controlling for age, intolerance of uncertainty was directly and indirectly (though anxiety) related to the three dimensions of career decision making difficulties: lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistent information. Results suggested that career choice interventions may be enhanced with a targeted emphasis on coping with the uncertainty involved in career decision making among college students.

Secure Attachment and Career Indecision: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 657-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayoung Phang ◽  
Weihua Fan ◽  
Consuelo Arbona
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Mediating Role

Over the past few decades, researchers have been trying to understand the career decision-making process from interpersonal and affective perspectives. Previous findings suggest that secure attachment is negatively linked to career indecision, but the extent to which other variables mediate this relation is less clear. The present study was designed to identify underlying mechanism in the relation between attachment and career indecision. This was done by examining a model which links secure attachment with career indecision through the mediating role of emotional intelligence. Participants included 362 female undergraduate students from a large Southern University. A path model was tested to investigate (a) the direct association of attachment to three dimensions of career indecision (lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistent information) and (b) whether emotional intelligence mediates the relations between attachment and the career indecision dimensions, while controlling students’ age. Results indicated a very good fit for the proposed path model. With two exceptions, results provided support for the study’s hypothesis regarding the direct and mediated links in the model; all paths were in the expected direction. Results of the study provide support for the notion that different antecedents may explain career decision-making difficulties, and therefore, college women may require diverse intervention approaches

Social Class Fragility and College Students’ Career Decision-Making at a Private University

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Keaton C. Muzika ◽  
Aaron Hudyma ◽  
Patton O. Garriott ◽  
Dana Santiago ◽  
Jessica Morse
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Interventions

The present study examined the role of social class in the career decision-making of undergraduate students attending a private university. Grounded theory was used to describe the process of social class and undergraduates’ career interests and plans. Interviews with undergraduate students ( N = 21) resulted in four categories and 13 axial codes. The grounded theory emerging from the data was labeled, social class fragility. Social class fragility captured the career goals and behaviors associated with participants’ striving for an acceptable career choice, based upon their social class contexts. The contextual factors described by participants included relational influences, social class consciousness, and vocational privilege. Results are discussed in terms of career interventions with college students attending universities that encapsulate upper middle-class norms.

scholarly journals Difficulties in Career Decision Making and Self-Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-635
Author(s):  
Shagini Udayar ◽  
Nimrod Levin ◽  
Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler ◽  
Shékina Rochat ◽  
Annamaria Di Fabio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Inconsistent Information ◽  
Lack Of Information

This meta-analysis examined the association between two types of difficulties in career decision making—indecision and indecisiveness—and four types of self-evaluations: generalized self-efficacy, process-related self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Analyses were conducted on data from 86 studies ( N = 54,160): Process-related self-efficacy showed stronger negative associations with career indecision than did generalized self-efficacy, content-related self-efficacy, or self-esteem. In contrast, self-esteem showed stronger negative associations with indecisiveness than with career indecision. The second part of this meta-analysis focused on differential associations between two types of self-evaluations (process-related self-efficacy and self-esteem) and the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making (lack of readiness, lack of information, and inconsistent information). Based on 19 studies ( N = 7,953), the findings showed that process-related self-efficacy was strongly and negatively associated with lack of information and inconsistent information. In contrast, self-esteem was only weakly related to the three major clusters of difficulties in career decision making. In showing that each type of self-evaluation was more strongly associated with certain types and causes of difficulties in career decision making, the present article highlighted the importance of self-evaluations in the career decision-making process.

scholarly journals CAREER DECISION MAKING SELF-EFFICACY DAN CAREER INDECISION PADA MAHASISWA TINGKAT AKHIR

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Gani Dharma ◽  
Sari Zakiah Akmal
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
College Student ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Inconsistent Result ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Data Result

ABSTRAKKebimbangan karier merupakan kondisi dimana individu mengalami kesulitan dalam membuat keputusan karier yang akan ditempuh. Mahasiswa tingkat akhir rentan merasakan kebimbangan karier. Hal ini mengakibatkan mahasiswa menjadi tidak yakin terhadap kemampuannya untuk menempuh jenjang karier setelah lulus nanti. Efikasi diri merupakan salah satu aspek penting dalam proses pembuatan keputusan karier, yang dapat membantu individu dalam menentukan karier. Akan tetapi, penelitian sebelumnya menunjukan hasil yang tidak konsisten mengenai hubungan antara efikasi diri dalam membuat keputusan karier dengan kebimbangan karier.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat kembali bentuk hubungan antara efikasi diri dalam membuat keputusan karier dengan kebimbangan karier pada mahasiswa tingkat akhir. Penelitian ini melibatkan 328 mahasiswa tingkat akhir sebagai sampel, yang diperoleh dengan menggunakan teknik sampel insidental. Pengukuran kebimbangan karier menggunakan alat ukur Career Decision Scale (CDS) dan pengukuran efikasi diridalam membuat keputusan karier menggunakan Career Decision Making Self-efficacy Scale (CDMSES). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara kedua variabel penelitian (r = -0,143 p = 0,010,01). Implikasi dari hasil penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa dapat mengurangi kebimbangan karier dengan cara meningkatkan efikasi diri saat membuat keputusan karier.Kata kunci: Career Decision Making Self-efficacy, Career Indecision, Mahasiswa Tingkat AkhirABSTRACTCareer 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 in1Seurune, Jurnal Psikologi Unsyiah ISSN: 2614-6428 Vol 2, No. 2, Juli 2019 E ISSN: 2655-9161Indonesia. 328 final year college students who recruited by incidental sampling participated in this study. Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSES) and Career Decision Scale (CDS) used to collect the data. Result of this study showed that there is significant correlation between Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy and Career Indecision (r = -0,143 p = 0,010,01). The implication of this study is college student with high career decision making self-efficacy can decrease their career indecision.Keywords: Career Decision Making Self-efficacy, Career Indecision, Final Year College Students

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