The Career Decision-Making Profiles questionnaire (CDMP; Gati, Landman, Davidovitch, Asulin-Peretz, & Gadassi, 2010) uses a new model for characterizing the way individuals make decisions based on the simultaneous use of 11 dimensions. The present study investigated which pole of each dimension is more adaptive. Using the data of 383 young…

This study explored the work experiences of individuals who have started transitioning from their biological sex to a different gender expression through 18 interviews of transgender-identified individuals. Thirteen of the participants identified as male-to-female transsexuals, 2 participants identified as female-to-male transsexuals, 2…

The present study examined the relation between individual cognitive structure and several key career decision variables. Specifically, in a sample of college students enrolled in a career development class, the usage of the RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) circumplex (adherence) was examined as…

Theoretically analyzes career decisions under uncertainty, when career decision maker ranks options rather than choosing best one. Found that how decisions were framed affected ranking of options and quality of decisions. Analysis showed that the rank order of options in optimal ranking always coincided with the rank order of the options by their…

Conducted two-part study to examine reasons underlying finding that experimentally provided vocational constructs are used in less complex, less differentiated ways than are subjects' personally elicited construct dimensions. Findings support significant differences between use of elicited and provided constructs and helped to isolate personal…

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…

Examined relations among trait anxiety, coping types, career decision making, and state anxiety related to career decision making. Trait anxiety and low sense of personal efficacy (not using Type II coping) were the primary predictors of career undecidedness. (Author/BL)

Stage resolution attitudes, derived from the first six stage crises outlined by Erikson, were explored as variables influencing problems in vocational choice and vocational maturity. Findings indicated students who made adjusted vocational choices and developed mature career attitudes had also been more successful resolving the first six…

Results of a one-year follow-up of reentry women (N=121) who previously participated in one of three career exploration treatment groups (Vocational Card Sort [VCS]; VCS-plus-videotape; control) indicated minimal treatment effects. However, the importance of career indecision and its stability over time was supported. (Author/BL)

College students (390) completed scales assessing 10 dimensions of vocational indecision and 9 personality constructs. Cluster-analytic procedures revealed four-cluster solution, with clusters being differentiated on basis of vocational decidedness and personal concern over stage of career decision making. Resulting cluster solution was…

Results indicated a significant positive correlation between cognitive complexity and the choosing of an occupation in which the environment was compatible with the subject's personality coping style. (Author)

Examined utility of fear of commitment in understanding differences between career undecidedness versus more complicated and chronic career indecisiveness in three studies targeting undecided and decided college students (N=707). Found fear of commitment related to state and trait anxiety, self-esteem, and was significantly higher in undecided…

Examined Career Decision Scale (CDS) as type indicator, using cluster analysis to group 368 college students on basis of responses to CDS. A five-cluster solution seemed to indicate the general decisional task being faced and nine-cluster solution suggested specific problem being encountered. Results were interpreted with regard to career…

Investigates whether general anxiety or anxiety about choice of a college major and choice of a vocation were related to educational-vocational decidedness. Of the 10 independent variables, nine were found to be related to at least one of the dependent variables, thus supporting the relationships hypothesized between anxiety and career decision…

Examined whether state and trait anxiety relate differentially to various components of career indecision among 349 college students. Generated factor scores from the Career Decision Scale (CDS) and correlated them individually with the two measures of anxiety. Found anxiety correlated with three of the CDS factors, but not with a fourth factor…