Indecisiveness and High School Students' Career Decision-Making Process: Longitudinal Associations and the Mediational Role of Anxiety

Autor/inn/en	Germeijs, Veerle; Verschueren, Karine; Soenens, Bart
Titel	Indecisiveness and High School Students' Career Decision-Making Process: Longitudinal Associations and the Mediational Role of Anxiety
Quelle	In: Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53 (2006) 4, S.397-410 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0167
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Decision Making; Adolescents; Career Choice; Higher Education; Coping; Grade 12; Anxiety; Risk + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bewältigung; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Angst; Risiko
Abstract	This study examined how indecisiveness relates to adolescents' process of choosing a study in higher education, using a longitudinal design. A sample of 281 students participated at the beginning, middle, and end of Grade 12. Findings show that indecisiveness was a risk factor for future levels of coping with the career decisional tasks of broad and in-depth environmental exploration (amount of information and exploratory behavior), amount of self-information, decisional status, and commitment. However, indecisiveness did not relate to the degree of change in decisional tasks during Grade 12. Moreover, results suggest that the linkage of indecisiveness with the amount of in-depth environmental information, the amount of self-information, decisional status, and commitment was mediated by adolescents' career choice anxiety. Finally, stability data provided support for the conceptualization of indecisiveness as a trait. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10