The Effectiveness of a Career Decision-Making Course

Abstract

This study examined the effectiveness of a college career course designed to increase career decision-making confidence and facilitate career exploration. Participants were 73 students from a large Midwestern university (65.6% women, 34.4% men, mean age 18.56). Students were given questionnaires assessing career decision-making difficulties, career decision-making self-efficacy, and perception of career and educational barriers during the first and fifteenth weeks of the course. Repeated measures analyses were conducted to examine possible differences in students' responses before and after the course. Results indicated that on completion of the course students' career decision-making difficulties decreased, career self-efficacy increased, and perceptions of barriers did not change.

The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making

“…Results supported our Hypothesis A well as ambiguity tolerance was found to be predictive of the four domains of general indecisiveness, dysfunctional beliefs, lack of information, and inconsistent information. As previous research showed (Fouad, Cotter, & Kantamneni, 2009;Gati, et al, 2013), general indecisiveness and dysfunctional beliefs could not be relieved by simply acquiring more information, suggesting that they are more chronic issues and need an adjustment on the characteristic information processing style. The current result is resonant with these arguments that how people handle the ambiguity is closely associated with the issues of general indecisiveness and dysfunctional beliefs.…”

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

“…Pervious research found the CDMP to be highly stable over a one-year period, with a median within-participant correlation of .81 across the 12 dimensions (Gati & Levin, 2012), whereas research on the CDDQ found that intervention reduces career decision-making difficulties (Fouad, Cotter, & Kantamneni, 2009;Perdrix, Stauffer, Masdonati, Massoudi, & Rossier, 2012), indicating that this construct is more situational. Therefore, in the current study we hypothesized that the CDMP scores would predict the CDDQ scores, and not the other way around.…”

Taking a Timeout to Ensure Well-Being: Social Work Involvement in College Sports

“…There is clear evidence linking self-efficacy theory to career development amongst college students (Burns, Jasinski, Dunn, & Fletcher, 2013;Fouad, Cotter, & Kantamneni, 2009;Scott & Ciani, 2008). A similar approach might also promote healthy psychosocial development.…”