Cross-cultural exploration of the Indecisiveness Scale: A comparison of Chinese and American men and women

Patalano, Andrea L.; Wengrovitz, Steven M.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2006.03.023

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“…These results were confirmed by Rassin and Muris (2005b) in a study with 135 undergraduate Dutch students but are in contrast with other studies (Patalano & Wengrovitz, 2006) which found no significant gender differences in indecisiveness. In addition, girls have significantly more trait anxiety and lower selfesteem than do boys.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…However, some researchers have recently demonstrated that indecisiveness is distinct from other forms of indecision (e.g., Germeijs & De Boeck, 2002). Specifically, indecisiveness can be defined as a trait (Rassin, 2007) characterized by a chronic problem with making decisions across situations and domains (Germeijs & De Boeck, 2002;Patalano & Wengrovitz, 2006). Research findings have shown that indecisiveness has a significant negative impact on individuals' behavior during the process of making specific decisions.…”

Section: Abstract Family Communication á Indecisiveness á Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anxiety and self-esteem as mediators of the relation between family communication and indecisiveness in adolescence

Cascio

Guzzo

Pace

et al. 2013

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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In this study, we explored the unique and common contributions of anxiety, self-esteem, and family communication on indecisiveness among adolescents. Three hundred and fifty pupils from 13 to 16 years of age completed selfreport measures on indecisiveness, quality of family communication, trait anxiety, and self-esteem. The findings in this study showed that students' indecisiveness is predicted by family communication mediated by anxiety and self-esteem. These results have important implications for practice as it stresses the importance of anxiety and self-esteem. Nevertheless, the counselors could also focus on enhancing relationship-building skills by introducing the adolescents' career formation as an adolescent-parent joint project.Résumé. L'anxiété et l'estime de soi comme médiateurs de la relation entre communication au sein de la famille et indécision chronique à l'adolescence. Dans cette étude, nous avons exploré les contributions uniques et communes de l'anxiété, de l'estime de soi et de la communication au sein de la famille sur l'indécision chronique auprès d'adolescents. Trois cent cinquante élèves âgés de 13 à 16 ans ont rempli des mesures d'auto-évaluation de l'indécision chronique, de la qualité de la communication familiale, de l'anxiété-trait et de l'estime de soi. Les résultats de cette étude ont montré que l'indécision des étudiants est expliquée par la communication au sein de la famille et que ce lien est médiatisé par l'anxiété et l'estime de soi. Ces résultats ont des implications importantes pour la pratique car

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Section: Abstract Family Communication á Indecisiveness á Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Anxiety and self-esteem as mediators of the relation between family communication and indecisiveness in adolescence

Cascio

Guzzo

Pace

et al. 2013

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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“…Likert responses to the questionnaire items were elicited on a scale ranging from 1 (very strong disagreement) to 7 (very strong agreement). This single scale was used for consistency across the questionnaire (as in Patalano & Wengrovitz, 2006, 2007 even though the indecisiveness scale was originally administered with a 1-5 Likert range. The indecisiveness scale was the second scale administered (following a holism scale; Choi, Dalal, Kim-Prieto, & Park, 2003).…”

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The relationship between indecisiveness and eye movement patterns in a decision making informational search task

Patalano

Juhasz

Dicke

2009

Behavioral Decision Making

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Indecisiveness is a trait-related general tendency to experience decision difficulties across a variety of situations, leading to decision delay, worry, and regret. Indecisiveness is proposed (Rassin, 2007) to be associated with an increase in desire for information acquisition and reliance on compensatory strategies-as evidenced by alternative-based information search-during decision making. However existing studies provide conflicting findings. We conducted an information board study of indecisiveness, using eye tracking methodology, to test the hypotheses that the relationship between indecisiveness and choice strategy depends on being in the early stage of the decision making process, and that it depends on being in the presence of an opportunity to delay choice. We found strong evidence for the first hypothesis in that indecisive individuals changed shift behavior from the first to the second half of the task, consistent with a move from greater to lesser compensatory processing, while the shift behavior of decisive individuals suggested lesser compensatory processing over the whole task. Indecisiveness was also related to time spent viewing attributes of the selected course, and to time spent looking away from decision information. These findings resolve past discrepancies, suggest an interesting account of how the decision process unfolds for indecisive versus decisive individuals, and contribute to a better understanding of this tendency.

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“…This concept began to be increasingly studied as a result of increased personnel fluctuation rate, job transitions and the behavior that adolescents frequently adopt (Fouad & Bynner, 2008). Therefore, career indecision has been defined as the inability to make decisions in various contexts and situations (Gaffner & Hazler, 2002;Patalano & Wengrovitz, 2006;Di Fabio & Palazzeschi, 2012), respectively to face up the challenges that involve defining in a realistic way the vocational direction (Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996).…”

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Factors Influencing Deciding For A Career In Education As Second Career Option

Crişan¹,

Albulescu²,

Turda³

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Career selection represents one of many important choices students make in determining future plans. The decision to take on the type of career they choose today will impact on the students either positively or negatively throughout their lives (Ushurhe, 2015). The purpose of our study was to find out the factors which influence the student's choice of teaching as a career according to gender and their educational profile.The present study is based on an exploratory research which aims to identify and prioritize the factors that influence the decision of choosing a career in education among students who subscribed to a vocational training course as a second career option, both according to gender and field of study. To investigate the motivation for student's choice of teaching as a career, we used the Factors Influencing Teaching Choice Scale (FIT-Choice scale, Watt & Richardson, 2007). Another aim of the study is to determine whether there are potential relations between motivational factors for teaching (intrinsic value, job security, time for family, social contribution, work with children/ adolescents) and the satisfaction of the career chosen (satisfaction with choice). The present research is based on a sample of 145 first year students.The study concluded that job security, time for family, make social contribution and working with childre/adolescents are the most important teacher characteristics that can influence student's choice of teaching as a career.

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Cross-cultural exploration of the Indecisiveness Scale: A comparison of Chinese and American men and women

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

Anxiety and self-esteem as mediators of the relation between family communication and indecisiveness in adolescence

Anxiety and self-esteem as mediators of the relation between family communication and indecisiveness in adolescence

The relationship between indecisiveness and eye movement patterns in a decision making informational search task

Factors Influencing Deciding For A Career In Education As Second Career Option

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