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The adaptability of career decision-making profiles
Reuma Gadassi1, Itamar Gati, Amira Dayan
1School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Journal of Counseling Psychology
|July 4, 2012
Summary
This study reveals adaptive career decision-making strategies for young adults. Key factors include thorough information gathering, analytical processing, and an internal locus of control for better career choices.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Career Development
- Decision Science
Background:
- Career decision-making is complex, influenced by various individual and process-related factors.
- The Career Decision-Making Profiles (CDMP) questionnaire offers a multidimensional framework for understanding these processes.
- Identifying adaptive patterns within these dimensions is crucial for effective career counseling.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate which pole of the 11 dimensions in the CDMP model is more adaptive for career decision-making.
- To examine the relationship between adaptive career decision-making, Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties (EPCD), and personality traits.
- To provide empirical support for optimizing career choice processes.
Main Methods:
- Utilized data from 383 young adults facing career choices.
- Assessed career decision status, CDMP dimensions, EPCD, and NEO Personality Inventory-Revised factors.
- Employed statistical analyses to determine associations between CDMP dimensions and adaptive decision-making outcomes.
Main Results:
- Confirmed hypotheses that comprehensive information gathering, analytic processing, internal locus of control, higher effort, less procrastination, faster decisions, and less dependence on others are adaptive.
- Found that high aspiration for an ideal occupation was unexpectedly adaptive.
- Observed mixed results for consulting with others and no significant association for willingness to compromise.
Conclusions:
- Specific CDMP dimensions significantly predict adaptive career decision-making, offering valuable insights for intervention.
- The findings highlight the importance of balancing aspiration with realistic considerations in career choices.
- Results inform career counseling practices by identifying key behaviors and traits that facilitate effective career decision-making.
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