scholarly journals Gender Difference In Cognitive Style And Career Decision Making Difficulties Of College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidrah Shafeeq ◽  
Mamoona Ismail Loona
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Inconsistent Information

Career decision making difficulties are one of the pivotal concerns of the students as well as the educational counsellors. Decision making is effected by the cognitive styles. The present study aimed to investigate the gender difference in cognitive style and career decision making difficulties of college students. For this purpose, students (N=541) including both female (N=236) and male (N=305) from twelve different colleges of Rawalpindi and Islamabad were approached, and they filled the Cognitive Style Indicator (Cools & Van den Broeck, 2007) and Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (Gati & Saka, 2001). The results of present study revealed that male students scored significantly high as compared to female students on Planning, subscale of cognitive style. Moreover, female students scored significantly high as compared to male students on Readiness, sub-scale of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire and male students scored significantly high as compared to female students on Inconsistent information, sub-scale of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire. This indicates that female students have significantly less difficulties as compared to male students on inconsistent information, this finding is unique in Pakistani context, as previous researches conducted in Pakistan reports that male students have less career decision making difficulties as compared to female students.

scholarly journals Gender Difference In Cognitive Style And Career Decision Making Difficulties Of College Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Sidrah Shafeeq ◽  
Mamoona Ismail Loona
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Inconsistent Information

Career decision making difficulties are one of the pivotal concerns of the students as well as the educational counsellors. Decision making is effected by the cognitive styles. The present study aimed to investigate the gender difference in cognitive style and career decision making difficulties of college students. For this purpose, students (N=541) including both female (N=236) and male (N=305) from twelve different colleges of Rawalpindi and Islamabad were approached, and they filled the Cognitive Style Indicator (Cools & Van den Broeck, 2007) and Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (Gati & Saka, 2001). The results of present study revealed that male students scored significantly high as compared to female students on Planning, subscale of cognitive style. Moreover, female students scored significantly high as compared to male students on Readiness, sub-scale of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire and male students scored significantly high as compared to female students on Inconsistent information, sub-scale of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire. This indicates that female students have significantly less difficulties as compared to male students on inconsistent information, this finding is unique in Pakistani context, as previous researches conducted in Pakistan reports that male students have less career decision making difficulties as compared to female students.

scholarly journals How Parenting Styles Link Career Decision-Making Difficulties in Chinese College Students? The Mediating Effects of Core Self-Evaluation and Career Calling

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Tian ◽  
Bijuan Huang ◽  
Hongxia Li ◽  
Shaowen Xie ◽  
Komal Afzal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Career Calling ◽  
Core Self ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties in college students, and uncovered the mediating roles of core self-evaluation and career calling. A total of 1,127 undergraduates were recruited to complete the questionnaires about parenting styles, core self-evaluation, career calling, and career decision-making difficulties. The results showed that: (1) Positive and negative parenting styles could positively predict career decision-making difficulties in college students. (2) Core self-evaluation and career calling mediated the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties. Sequential dual mediators only found in which positive paternal and maternal parenting styles predict career decision-making difficulties through core self-evaluation and career calling. (3) Further analysis revealed gender difference in the relationship between parenting styles and career decision-making difficulties. The relation between paternal positive parenting style and career decision-making difficulties was significant in male students, but absent in female students; the relation between maternal positive parenting and career decision-making difficulties and the relation between paternal negative parenting and career calling were significant in female students, but absent in male students; and the relation between career calling and career decision-making difficulties was greater in male than in female. The current study expanded and deepened those existing understandings about the relationship between parenting styles and adolescents’ career decisions, so as to further reveal its internal mechanism and provide more reasonable suggestions and targeted guidance for career counseling.

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