ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2011, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (8): 1214-1223.

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Indecisiveness in the Domain of Career Decision Problems

XIONG Hong-Xing;ZHENG Xue   

  1. (1 Research Center of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China)
    (2 Center of Psychological Counseling, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China)
  • Received:2011-03-07 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-08-15 Published:2011-08-15
  • Contact: ZHENG Xue

Abstract: Indecisiveness is a general tendency to repeatedly experience difficulties in making all sorts of life decisions and is a major concern of career psychologists. It has a great impact on career decision-making, such as decisional procrastination, tunnel vision, and post-decisional problems etc. It is not only associated with many personality factors, but also with some clinical symptoms. The position of indecisiveness in the career decision-making concept system and how to translate it into Chinese are discussed. Further researches about this issue are as follows: the structure of indecisiveness, the impact of indecisiveness on decision-making in the dynamic context, the antecedent variables of indecisiveness, the longitudinal study on indecisiveness etc.

Key words: career decision-making, indecisiveness, career indecision, decision-making difficulties