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Relationship of Age, Sex, and Educational Groups to Career Decisiveness.
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Neice, David E.; Bradley, Richard W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1979
Five educational groups, ranging from high school freshmen to college juniors, were administered the Career Decision Questionnaire, a scale designed to measure antecedents of educational-vocational indecision. It was determined that age was an extremely important factor in career decidedness. Sex was not an important variable in determining…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Choice, Decision Making Skills, Higher Education
Interest Differentiation in High School and Vocational Indecision in College
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Lunneborg, Patricia W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
In a sample of 1622 students in college for three years, 24 percent indecisive students were found and compared with vocationally decisive students (having majors) using precollege measures of achievement, aptitude, and interest. Measures of interest differentiation were of particular concern. Most important to vocational indecision, however, was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making Skills