A Correlation and Predictive Analysis between Career Decision Difficulties & Strategies for Coping Career Indecision

Abstract

 The purpose of this study was to find the contribution of strategies for coping career indecision in predicting career decision difficulties, and to find the comparison and correlation of career decision difficulties and strategies for coping career indecision among male and female students with reference to their career decision status (undecided, partially decided & decided). A sample of 250 students was collected from multiple government colleges and Universities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Purposive sampling technique was used to get the sample fit in the study. In this study correlational Research design was used along with the quantitative method to gather and analyze the data collected from the participants. The mean age of the students was 17.8. Three scales were used in the study i.e. Career decision difficulties scale, Range of Considered Alternatives and Strategies for coping career indecision scale to collect the response data from the determined sample and their responses were statistically analyzed (SPSS). Results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between career decision difficulties and strategies for coping career indecision. It was found that nonproductive coping strategies contributed more in the prediction of career decision difficulties as compared to support seeking and productive coping strategies. It shows that nonproductive coping strategies that incorporated five group of strategies (escape, helplessness, isolation, submission and opposition) are more causing the career decision difficulties as compared to support seeking and career decision difficulties.