Decision-making styles and vocational maturity: An alternative perspective |
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| Institution: | 1. The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’ an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, PR China;2. Laboratory of Biorheology and Medical Ultrasonics, University of Montreal Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada;3. Department of Oncology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China;4. Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China;1. College of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China;2. Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan;1. 4-5, Agency for Defense Development, 35-4 Yuseong P.O. Box, Daejeon 34186, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, 1 Kwanak-ro, Kwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea;3. Division of Aeronautics, Cheongju University, 298 Daeseong-ro, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju, Chungbuk 28503, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | This study examined the relationship between decision-making styles and vocational maturity with a focus on the current discrepancy between research and theory regarding the utility of rational decision making. While rational decision making has been central to many theoretical formulations in career development, recent research findings have not unequivocally supported this proposition. Based on the assumption that rational decision making would be more important to those individuals who do not have access to many of the traditional sources of vocational maturity, this study attempted to account for the inconsistency between research and theory by systematically considering relevant population attributes. The results of this investigation were consistent across two independent samples of community college students, in that a reliance upon the rational style was the only significant decision-making style predictor of vocational maturity; the dependent and intuitive decision-making styles did not add significant increments to the regression equations. The discussion highlighted the advantages of viewing theory, research, and practice in career decision making from a perspective that explicitly incorporates relevant attributes of given populations. |
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