Decision-making style as a predictor of career decision-making status and treatment gains

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Mau, Wei-Cheng J.
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1995-01
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Decision making style , Career decision making status , Treatment gains , Career certainty , Indecision , Choice anxiety , Reasoning , College students
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Mau, W.-C. (1995). Decision-making style as a predictor of career decision-making status and treatment gains. Journal of Career Assessment, 3(1), 89-99. doi:10.1177/106907279500300107
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This study investigated the predictability of rational decision- making style on career decision-making status and treatment gains based on a computer-based career intervention. Decision-making style, in relation to pretreatment career status as well as its efficacy in predicting intervention outcomes, was also examined. Seventy-four undecided university students participated in the study. Results show that employing decision-making strategies based on an individual's preference significantly increased students' career decidedness and decreased career indecision, choice anxiety, and reason complexity. Rational decision-making style is positively associated with career decidedness and negatively associated with the exploration stage of decision making; it is not, however, predictive of treatment gains.

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SAGE Publications
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Journal of Career Assessment
v.3 no.1
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1069-0727
1552-4590 (online)
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