ERIC Number: EJ1010062
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Feb
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1069-0727
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Career Indecision versus Indecisiveness: Associations with Personality Traits and Emotional Intelligence
Di Fabio, Annamaria; Palazzeschi, Letizia; Asulin-Peretz, Lisa; Gati, Itamar
Journal of Career Assessment, v21 n1 p42-56 Feb 2013
The goal of the present study was to investigate the distinctions between career indecision and indecisiveness. The different patterns of the associations between career indecision and indecisiveness, on one hand, and personality traits, career decision-making self-efficacy, perceived social support, and emotional intelligence, on the other, were studied in a sample of 361 university students. The results showed that career indecision, as measured by the Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire, is most highly associated with emotional intelligence, whereas career indecisiveness, as measured by the Indecisiveness scale, is most highly associated with personality traits, and in particular with emotional stability. This pattern of results was obtained for both women and men; however, the prediction was stronger for indecision (R[superscript 2] = 0.76 and 0.55, for women and men, respectively) than indecisiveness (R[superscript 2] = 0.35 and 0.28, for women than for men, respectively). Possible explanations of these differences are discussed. (Contains 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence, Self Efficacy, Social Support Groups, College Students, Decision Making, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire; State Trait Anxiety Inventory; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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