Neuroticism, Negative Thinking, and Coping With Respect to Career Decision State

Abstract

Using structural equation modeling, the present study investigated relationships between neuroticism, coping strategies, and negative career thoughts within the context of attaining a positive career decision state. Results from the initial model, based on a sample of college students (119 women, 113 men; M = 20.3 years) enrolled in a career development course, revealed that coping strategies were not a significant contribution to the model. The final model, without coping strategies, showed that neuroticism had a significant indirect effect on career decision state through negative thinking and that the relationship between neuroticism and career decision state was also significant. Findings also indicate that in the presence of negative career thoughts, neuroticism becomes associated with a more positive career decision state. Practical implications include suggestions that counselors intervene on clients' negative career thoughts to potentially render their neurotic tendencies more productive in reaching a desired career decision state.

Comparing Career Development Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students in Cognitive Information Processing Theory–Based Versus Human Relations Courses

“…Convergent validity was demonstrated through correlations between the CSI total score and the Career Thoughts Inventory (Sampson, Peterson, Lenz, Reardon, & Saunders, 1996) total score ( r = .63, p < .001), Decision‐Making Confusion subscale ( r = .63, p < .001), Commitment Anxiety subscale ( r = .60, p < .001), and External Conflict subscale ( r = .42, p < .001). Previous studies have used the CSI and found it an adequate measure of career decision state (Bullock‐Yowell et al, 2015; Miller et al, 2018). In the current study, internal consistency estimates (coefficient alpha) for the CSI total score at pretest were .70 for those in the CD course and .77 for those in the HR course.…”

Impact of Worry on Career Thoughts, Career Decision State, and Cognitive Information Processing Skills

“…A significant relationship between neuroticism (i .e ., a general tendency to experience negative effects such as fear, sadness, embarrassment, anger, guilt, and disgust; Costa & McCrae, 1992, p . 14) and career decision state via negative career thinking has also been indicated (Bullock-Yowell, Reed, et al ., 2015) .…”

Influência da Carreira e do Capital Psicológico em Aspectos de Vida e Trabalho

“…A literatura para justificar esses resultados é escassa, porém, ao considerar outros fenômenos psicológicos subjacentes (ex., traços de personalidade), pode-se encontrar explicações iniciais para essas diferenças, como a relação entre pensamentos negativos e o traço neuroticismo (Bullock-Yowell et al, 2015;Kelly & Shin, 2008). De acordo com Wille, De Fruyt e Feys (2013) em estudo cobrindo entrada e estabelecimento no mercado de trabalho, foram encontradas diferenças entre os sexos para o fator neuroticismo, no qual mulheres apresentaram indicadores superiores nesse traço, além de maior conflito trabalho-família.…”