TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional and personality-related aspects of career decision-making difficulties
T2 - Facets of career indecisiveness
AU - Gati, Itamar
AU - Gadassi, Reuma
AU - Saka, Noa
AU - Hadadi, Yael
AU - Ansenberg, Neta
AU - Friedmann, Ronit
AU - Asulin-Peretz, Lisa
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - The current study investigated the Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties model and questionnaire (EPCD) by studying its associations with various personality measures in three samples: (a) 691 deliberating individuals who entered a career self-help website, (b) 197 students in a university preparatory program, and (c) 286 young adults from the general population. As hypothesized, higher levels of emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties, as measured by the EPCD, were associated with higher levels of neuroticism, agreeableness, perfectionism, and need for cognitive closure, and lower levels of extraversion, openness to experience, and career decision self-efficacy. In addition, higher levels of these difficulties were associated with a more external locus of control (LoC), and with being less advanced in the career decision-making process.
AB - The current study investigated the Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties model and questionnaire (EPCD) by studying its associations with various personality measures in three samples: (a) 691 deliberating individuals who entered a career self-help website, (b) 197 students in a university preparatory program, and (c) 286 young adults from the general population. As hypothesized, higher levels of emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties, as measured by the EPCD, were associated with higher levels of neuroticism, agreeableness, perfectionism, and need for cognitive closure, and lower levels of extraversion, openness to experience, and career decision self-efficacy. In addition, higher levels of these difficulties were associated with a more external locus of control (LoC), and with being less advanced in the career decision-making process.
KW - Big Five
KW - career counseling
KW - career decision making
KW - career indecision
KW - career indecisiveness
KW - cognitive closure
KW - emotional and personality-related difficulties
KW - locus of control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650706361&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1069072710382525
DO - 10.1177/1069072710382525
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AN - SCOPUS:78650706361
SN - 1069-0727
VL - 19
SP - 3
EP - 20
JO - Journal of Career Assessment
JF - Journal of Career Assessment
IS - 1
ER -