The adaptability of Career Decision-Making Profiles.

Abstract

The Career Decision-Making Profiles questionnaire (CDMP; Gati, Landman, Davidovitch, Asulin-Peretz, & Gadassi, 2010) uses a new model for characterizing the way individuals make decisions based on the simultaneous use of 11 dimensions. The present study investigated which pole of each dimension is more adaptive. Using the data of 383 young adults who were about to make a career choice, we assessed the individuals' decision status and the associations of the dimensions Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties (EPCD; Saka, Gati, & Kelly, 2008) and personality factors (NEO Personality Inventory-Revised; Costa & McCrae, 1992). The results suggest that, as hypothesized, comprehensive Information gathering, analytic Information processing, a more internal Locus of control, more Effort invested, less Procrastination, greater Speed of making the final decision, less Dependence on others, and less Desire to please others were more adaptive in making career decisions. However, contrary to our hypotheses, high Aspiration for an ideal occupation was more adaptive for the decision-making process, Willingness to compromise was not associated with more adaptive decision making, and the results regarding Consulting with others were mixed. Gender differences in the CDMP dimensions and counseling implications are discussed.

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

“…The regression analyses, which tested whether there are dimensions that predict difficulties beyond the CDA, revealed that across samples and difficulty clusters the CDA captured most of the variance in the prediction of career decision-making difficulties with no more than one other dimension as an additional predictor, indicating the importance of career decision adaptability for predicting fewer difficulties. Furthermore, these associations are compatible with the results of Gadassi et al (2012), who found that these dimensions of the CDMP were associated with fewer emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties. (Yi & Park, 2003), where one tends to forgo one's own goals for the sake of the goals of the group, and see one's own fate as intertwined with that of the group (Triandis, 1990).…”

“…career decision-making styles; Gati, Gadassi, & MashiahCohen, 2012). Specifically, the CDMP makes it possible to assess individual differences while simultaneously considering the following 12 dimensions (Gati et al, 2010;Gati & Levin, 2012): (Gadassi, Gati, & Dayan, 2012;Gadassi, Gati, & Wagman-Rolnick, 2013). Based on these six dimensions, Gati and Levin (2012) defined a measure of Career Decision-Making Adaptability (CDA).…”

Predicting Career Decision-Making Strategies in Women: The Role of Self-Determination and Perceived Emotional Intelligence

“…Contrary to our expectations, introjected regulation predicted not only maladaptive tendencies for dependence on others and desire to please them, but also consulting one's career choices with others and preference for adaptive aspiration for ideal occupation. Since neither rare nor frequent consultation with others was proved to be more or less adaptive in previous research (Gadassi et al, 2012(Gadassi et al, , 2013, the conclusion whether and when introjected individuals consult with others in adaptive or maladaptive ways remains an open question. As to high aspiration for ideal occupation, it is possible that there are some, yet uninvestigated personality or social factors affecting preference for this strategy in introjected individuals.…”

“…Only the level of consulting with others did not matter with regard to the above mentioned criteria (Gadassi, Gati, & Dayan, 2012;Gadassi, Gati, & Wagman-Rolnick, 2013). Moreover, in our previous research, based on the assumption that within CDM framework, core measures of subjective well-being are decision-making satisfaction and decision-making regret (DeHaan, Weinstein, & Deci, 2013), we found that CDMSs that were proved to be adaptive or maladaptive in studies by Gadassi et al (2012Gadassi et al ( , 2013, were equally adaptive or maladaptive, according to these two other-than-rational emotion-related criteria (Látalová & Pilárik, in press). …”

“…As for the strategy of consultation with others, we formulated no specific predictions, since findings about its adaptiveness have been ambiguous (Gadassi et al, 2012;Látalová & Pilárik, in press). …”