Systemic racism in higher education has become a topic that has received a great deal of attention in the midst of social injustice in this country, it is because of the unjust experiences that African American people have faced throughout history that a boiling point was reached. The result of this is displayed by the different ways people have…

Statistics anxiety has often been linked to performance in statistics modules for psychology students, despite this no research to date has examined whether attitudes towards statistics can predict whether or not a student chooses to carry on psychology from pre-tertiary to higher education. In this pilot study 41 second year A-level psychology…

Higher education administrators are regularly involved in making decisions and creating policies that affect faculty, staff and students daily. Decision-making in our colleges and universities involves much more than one can imagine, thus, this study researches decision-making and its connection to non-knowing, anxiety, power, sovereignty, and…

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)

Undergraduates (n=142) participated in study on decision making in which prospective administrators made monetary commitments to long-term goals under varying conditions. Found significant negative correlation between anxiety level and commitments to previously chosen courses of action; no significant effects of job security on commitment; and…

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…

Describes a study which found that highly writing apprehensive students selected majors perceived as having less writing required than those chosen by non-apprehensives. (DD)

Used canonical correlation analysis and factor analysis to examine the relationship of a set of four measures of career indecision and a set of four measures of anxiety in 133 undergraduate students. Results suggest that a substantial, unidimensional relationship exists between the two sets of measures. (Author/ABB)

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…

Administered Career Decision Scale and Self-Evaluation Questionnaire to college students to examine role of anxiety as antecedent or consequence in career indecisiveness. Investigated two theories of career indecisiveness and found both to have merit. Suggests there may be two types of career indecisive individuals. (NB)

Examined vocational decision-making style, contextual anxiety, and exploratory activity in 148 undergraduate students. Results suggest that individuals who rely upon thinking-oriented approaches to decisions and who experience stress with regard to the specific tasks of exploration are likely to engage in exploration of environment and, to lesser…

Four clusters of career-undecided college students (n=423) were formed from Career Factors Inventory scores. Groups were compared across Erikson's first five stages of ego identity development. Results indicated that groups experiencing the most indecision reported the least identity resolution as expected. (JPS)

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate an experimental procedure which lends itself to the controlled study of adult moral behavior. The procedure is a variation of Prisoner's Dilemma, a game widely used for the study of conflict resolution. The conflict generated by the game is both interpersonal and intrapersonal. The key issue in the…

While previous studies have correlated career indecision with state and trait anxiety in college students, most researchers have examined the relationship between anxiety and career indecision without considering other variables. This paper, incorporating previous research on career indecision, profiles a study of a causal model of career…