The Effectiveness of Strategies for Coping With Career Indecision

• In Event: 16.027 - Multicultural Perspectives of Career Indecision and Career Choice

Abstract

Recently, Lipshits-Braziler, Gati, and Tatar (2015) proposed a model of strategies for coping with career indecision, which is comprised of three major types of coping strategies – Productive Coping, Support-Seeking and Nonproductive Coping. The present study tested the effectiveness of these coping strategies using two criteria: the individual`s advancement toward making a career decision and the decrease in the career decision-making difficulties. Based on a longitudinal design with 252 students in a preparatory program, results indicated that a decrease in the use of Nonproductive strategies predict a decrease in the individual’s career decision-making difficulties. It was also found that Nonproductive coping can be used to distinguish between decided and undecided individuals. The theoretical and counseling implications are discussed.

Authors

• Yuliya Lipshits Braziler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Itamar Gati, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Moshe Tatar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem