Career decidedness and psychological distress among college students
by Poler, Joe E., Jr., Psy.D., ADLER SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2010, 75 pages; 3452693

Abstract:

Career decidedness and psychological distress were examined among a population of college students. The 92 participants were obtained via a convenience sample from a Midwestern university. The Career Decision Profile (CDP) was used to measure career decidedness, whereas the Beck Depression Inventory- Second Edition (BDI-II) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were used to measure depression and anxiety respectively. The co-relationships between demographic and target variables were ascertained from a correlational matrix analysis. As expected, results support that an increase in career decidedness was significantly associated with lower levels of anxiety. In contrast, there was no significant association between depression and decidedness. Overall, there were no gender differences found among the demographic variables, Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, or any aspect of the Career Decision Profile. As hypothesized, an increase in self-clarity was positively associated with decisiveness. Other findings demonstrate that age, gender, year in school, mother and father's education level, mother and father's employment status, and year in school were not significantly associated with career decidedness, with the exception of estimated grade point average. As expected, career decidedness was significantly associated with all of the other scales of the Career Decision Profile.

 
AdviserJerry Westermeyer
SchoolADLER SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
SourceDAI/B 72-07, p. , May 2011
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsEducational psychology; Occupational psychology
Publication Number3452693
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