Author

  • Ayesha Khan

    • Department of Behavioral Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
    • Pakistan

  • Adeela Rehman

    • Department of Sociology, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
    • Pakistan

Abstract

This research aimed to explore the impact of difficulties faced by adolescents in making a career decision on their mental health. The objective of the research was to explore the factors affecting career decision making and to explore the psychological effect of career decision making difficulties. A quantitative research design was used to collect data through online survey by random sampling method in which a sample of 70 adolescents aged between 18-24 both male (28) and female (42) were collected from Rawalpindi, Pakistan and then analyzed on SPSS. A correlation (p: .002) was found between career indecisiveness and mental health. Independent T test result suggested that gender difference exists with respect to career indecisiveness indicating a value of p to be .01, while one way ANOVA indicated a value of p to be .382, showing that no significant difference exist with respect to respondents age. A chi square result indicated the factors affecting career decision making to be parental (p: .000) and peer pressure (p: .002) and indicated that career decision making time period is stressful for adolescents who feel difficulty in making a career decision (p: .000) indicating a psychological effect. Thus, the hypothesis was proved that adolescents face career decision making difficulties which negatively impact their mental health and it is recommended that they should be given career guidance to help them out in exploring what they really want to do in their lives instead of making a wrong career and regretting it later.

Keywords

References

  • Adolescence. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary.
  • Brown, S. D., Lent, R. W. & Hackett, G. (1994). Social Cognitive theory. Career. (n.d). In Oxford English dictionary.
  • Corey, P. (2015). Examining the influence of parental pressure and perceived control on young adult’s career exploration.
  • Crişan, C. & Turda, S. (2015). The connection between career indecision and perceived self-efficacy on career decision making among teenagers. Career indecision: Three factors from decision theory.
  • Guay, F., Senécal, C., Gauthier, L. & Fernet, C. (2003). Predicting Career indecision: A self-determination theory perspective. Journal of counseling and Psychology , 50, 165-177.
  • Hellmann, J. (2014). Social and Psychological Factors related to Career Exploration process of Young Adults. Theses and Dissertations Family Sciences, 19.
  • Indecisive. (n.d). In Oxford Dictionary.
  • Kazi, A. S. & Akhlaq, A. (2017). Factors affecting students career choice. Journal of research and reflections in education , (2), 187-196.
  • Kunnen, E. S. (2013). Effect of career guidance on self-reported psychological problems. Department of developmental psychology.
  • Lin, S., Wu, C. & Chen, L. (2015). Unpacking the role of self-esteem in career uncertainty: a self-determination perspective. Journal of positive psychology , 10(3), 231-239.

Downloads

No downloads have been recorded for this article yet. Figures appear here once readers begin downloading the full text.

How to Cite

Khan, A., & Rehman, A. (2019). Impact of Difficulties Faced by Adolescents in Making Career Decision on their Mental Health. Journal of Education and Vocational Research, 9(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.22610/jevr.v9i2(V).2789

Share this article

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Ayesha Khan, Adeela Rehman (Author)

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Author (s) should affirm that the material has not been published previously. It has not been submitted and it is not under consideration by any other journal. At the same time author (s) need to execute a publication permission agreement to assume the responsibility of the submitted content and any omissions and errors therein. After submission of revised paper in the light of suggestions of the reviewers, the editorial team  edits and formats manuscripts to bring uniformity and standardization in published material.

This work will be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) and under condition of the license, users are free to read, copy, remix, transform, redistribute, download, print, search or link to the full texts of articles and even build upon their work as long as they credit the author for the original work. Moreover, as per journal policy author (s) hold and retain copyrights without any restrictions.

Keywords

Section

Research Paper

Published in

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018) Careers, Digital Learning & the Fourth Industrial Revolution View issue contents

Published

2019-04-07

Submissions

Have research to publish? Journal of Education and Vocational Research welcomes submissions.

Make a Submission