“…Previous studies have demonstrated a link between academic motivation and various career-related constructs (Guay, 2005; Látalová & Pilárik, 2015; Paixão & Gamboa, 2017; Patry, 2009). Specifically, studies have shown that intrinsic motivation for academic studies was related to less career indecision (Guay, 2005), greater career decision progress (Patry, 2009), and greater career decision-making self-efficacy (Guay, 2005; Patry, 2009), whereas extrinsic motivation was associated with greater career indecision (Guay, 2005; Paixão & Gamboa, 2017; Patry, 2009) and less career decision-making self-efficacy (Guay, 2005). As orientations to higher education link college motivation to the career decision-making process, the goal of Study 3 was to investigate the associations between the HEO questionnaire with three core constructs of career decision-making: individuals’ career decision status (how far they are in the career decision process; Saka et al, 2008), their career decision-making difficulties (the extent of their career indecision; Gati et al, 1996), and their strategies of coping with career indecision (how they are coping with their career indecision; Lipshits-Braziler et al, 2016).…”