Career choice
The relationship between personality, state anxiety and the career decidedness among Swedish upper secondary school students
SamhällsvetenskapSocial sciences - psychologyDecidednessCareer decidednessPersonalityAnxietyAnxious worry
The main purpose of this study was to inquire into personality and the state
anxiety in relation to career decidedness scale among students in upper
secondary school. The participants were 124 students in three grades and
respectively non vocationally oriented classes. The participants were asked to
grade themselves on a scale in relation to the statements regarding, state of
decidedness for career choice, personality (NEO FFI, Costa & McCrae, 1985.
Sweden, Gerontologic Center) and anxiety (AnTI, Wells, 1994). The results
showed no significant relationship between personality and state of anxiety
that could be connected to the decidedness for career choice. Ecologic validity
is brought up in the discussion part.