Assessing Career Indecision

Career decision-making profiles and career decision-making difficulties: A cross-cultural comparison among US, Israeli, and Chinese samples

“…Career indecision is among the most salient issues in vocational psychology (Osipow, 1999). In response to Tinsley's (1992) call for more theoretically-based research on career indecision, Gati et al (1996) developed the taxonomy of career decision-making difficulties and the Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ), which is based on it, expanding previous theoretical and empirical research (e.g., Campbell & Cellini, 1981;Miller, 1971).…”

Making career decisions in a changing graduate labour market: A Hospitality perspective

“…However, the weaknesses of such an approach can result in excessive conservatism, an idealistic nature and an individual understanding of advantages and disadvantages provided by each of the alternatives (Waterman, Waterman and Collard, 1994). According to Osipow (1999) career decisions are not driven primarily by the wishes and desires of the individuals or their own rational approach to the process. Rather it denotes an individual whose career choice is more likely to be influenced by external factors (Agarwala, 2008).…”

“…As Osipow (1999) indicates, upon approaching the point at which they will be considering their future career, individuals will be subjected to a number of influences and bombarded with a wealth of information, elements of which have an impact upon their career decision-making process. The level of information that is acquired by the student, together with the extent to which they allow external cultural or peer pressure to intervene, all impact upon the robustness and appropriateness of their final career decisions (Greenhaus, Callanan and Godshalk, 2009).…”

University Students’ Career Choice and Emotional Well-Being

“…During career decision-making process, career decidedness/indecision has received the most attention which is concerned with the difficulties preventing individuals from making a career decision (Kelly & Lee, 2005;Santos, 2001).Some individuals are labeled as undecided who experience only temporary or developmental career decisionmaking difficulties, while others are considered as indecisive who suffer from more chronic and pervasive difficulties, due to emotional or personality-related reasons (Kelly &Pulver, 2003;Meldahl&Muchinsky, 1997;Osipow, 1999). This could include the lack of information needed to make a decision, the lack of clear sense of self as to what type of occupations are suitable, the lack of motive to think it through, the lack of recognition of the importance of career, and etc.…”