Date of Award
1994
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Psychology
Abstract
This study was designed to determine the nature of the relationship between the certainty of career decision, as measured by the Certainty scale of the Career Decision Scale, gender, and three of Chickering's seven vectors of psychosocial development: Clarifying Purpose, Freeing Interpersonal Relationships, and Becoming Autonomous, as measured by the PUR, MIR, and AA tasks of the Student Developmental Task and Lifestyle Inventory (SDTLI). Participants were 135 college freshmen and sophomores recruited from generalEducation courses who were classified as undecided, tentatively decided, or decided based on groupings of Certainty scale scores. Four, 3 x 2, MANOVAs were conducted for each null hypothesis to determine whether differences could be observed in four (SDTLI) dependent variable clusters as a function of career-decidedness level, gender, and career-decidedness level and gender. The findings of this study are: (a) college freshmen and sophomores classified as undecided, tentatively decided, and decided were differentiated on measures of psychological but not social development; (b) males and females were differentiated on measures of psychological but not social development; and (c) college freshmen and sophomores classified as undecided, tentatively decided, and decided were not differentiated by gender. Implications are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Zlatos, Michael David, "Career Decision Certainty And College Students' Psychological And Social Development" (1994). All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 775.
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/etds/775