Coping with Career Indecision Among Young Adults: Implications for Career Counseling

2017 ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Career Indecision

scholarly journals In the same boat? An online group career counseling with a group of young adults in the time of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Santilli ◽  
M. C. Ginevra ◽  
I. Di Maggio ◽  
S. Soresi ◽  
L. Nota
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Counseling Intervention ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
The Future ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Online Group ◽  
Life Design

AbstractAn online group of career counseling for unemployed young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic was developed. Twelve participants were involved in online group career counseling intervention, based on the Life Design for an inclusive and sustainable future. Results indicated at post-test on increased scores on career adaptability, resilience, future orientation, and propensity to identify inclusive and sustainable actions for the future than pre-test. Overall, the online group career counseling intervention effectively promoted particular aspects of young adults' life design for an inclusive e-sustainable future.

Career Indecision Profile-65 Scores: Test–Retest Reliability and Measurement Equivalence in College and Noncollege Samples

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey J. Zobell ◽  
Margaret M. Nauta ◽  
Matthew S. Hesson-McInnis
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Measurement Equivalence ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
College Student Sample ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

The Career Indecision Profile-65 (CIP-65) is a relatively new measure of career indecision that appears to have promise for use in career counseling and research. We sought to expand the information available to those evaluating the CIP-65 for potential use by assessing its measurement equivalence in college ( N = 529) and noncollege ( N = 472) samples and its scores’ test–retest reliability in a subset of the college–student sample ( n = 107). Six-week test–retest reliability coefficients ranged from .58 (interpersonal conflicts) to .85 (choice/commitment anxiety) for the subscale scores. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the CIP-65’s four-factor structure fit the data well in both the college and noncollege samples. The CIP-65 scores were configurally invariant in the two samples, but we did not find support for metric invariance. We offer explanations for these findings, discuss implications for practice, and present ideas for future research.

scholarly journals Career Goal Setting and Goal Pursuit in Young Adults: The Role of Financial Distress

2020 ◽  
pp. 089484531989713
Author(s):  
Peter A. Creed ◽  
Dian R. Sawitri ◽  
Michelle Hood ◽  
Shi Hu
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
Related Attitude ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Regulatory Theories

Informed by goal-setting/self-regulatory theories, we tested the mediating role of career-related effort (i.e., goal striving) in the relationships between career-related indecision (i.e., goal ambiguity) and career-related stress (i.e., affect) and perceived employability (i.e., career-related attitude) and examined the effect of financial distress as a moderator in these direct and indirect relationships. Using a sample of 202 young adults ( M age = 19.8 years, 81.7% female), we found career indecision was related negatively to effort and perceived employability and positively to stress, with effort mediating between indecision and both stress and perceived employability. However, financial distress influenced these relationships. The associations between career indecision and effort and perceived employability were more negative and the associations between career indecision and stress were more positive when financial distress was higher. The study contributes by identifying how financial distress affects the relationships between career indecision, effort, and other career variables.

scholarly journals Kariérová adaptabilita

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Hlaďo ◽  
Lucia Kvasková ◽  
Lenka Hloušková ◽  
Bohumíra Lazarová ◽  
Stanislav Ježek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Secondary Vocational Education ◽  
Upper Secondary

Living in today’s rushed time full of various changes increases the demands on the individual’s ability to adapt to these changes. Career adaptability plays an important role in coping with changing demands in the field of work. What is career adaptability? Why is it important, and what does it affect? The answers to these questions and many others are provided in the monograph, entitled “Career adaptability: Its Forms, Changes, Contexts, and Roles in the Lives of Young Adults Undergoing Upper-Secondary Vocational Education,” which is the first publication written on this topic in the Czech language. In the book, a team of authors presents the construct of career adaptability and the results of unique research carried out in the Czech Republic. In the first part, the reader may find an analytical overview of various concepts of career adaptability and related concepts. The central part of the publication is devoted to the results of quantitatively conducted longitudinal research, which aimed to identify career adaptability and its relationships to several demographic, school, relational, and personality variables in the case of students and later graduates of upper-secondary vocational education—those who are in the crucial stages of their career construction. Many empirical findings concentrated in this book are beneficial not only for the career counseling theories and research on career adaptability but also for vocational education or career counseling practitioners.

scholarly journals Career self-efficacy as a mediator between emotional intelligence and employment planning among US college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Magnus Gray ◽  
Minsung Kim ◽  
Seungyeon Lee
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Big 5 Personality ◽  
Positive Effect

This study examines the dynamics of personality traits that interfere with occupational decisions among young adults, especially during a pandemic. Three multiple regression analyses were conducted to predict career decision self-efficacy (CDSE), e.g., planning and indecision from the Big 5 personality measures. We hypothesized that EI and personality affect employment conflicts (Study 1), and that CDSE mediates EI and planning difficulty (Study 2). Conscientiousness and openness significantly predicted CDSE, F(5, 128) = 15.64, p < .001, R2 = .38, while neuroticism was statistically significant in predicting CSPS, F(5, 128) = 3.94, p < .01, R2 = .13. Neuroticism was significant for personality variables while a negative correlation was found between EI and career indecision (r = -0.25, at p < .01). Results demonstrate that the positive effect of CDSE mediated EI’s link to career indecision, which reveals that conscientiousness also predicted participants’ occupational indecision (β = -0.17, p < .05).

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