04 Difficulties in Decision-making: Career Choice for Adolescent Students

Abstract

One of the most crucial decisions that an adolescent has to make in their early life is choice of courses/majors that lead them to desirable careers. The present study focuses on assessing Career Decision-Making Difficulties across three education levels in school and college students. The sample comprised of 410 students from 9th, 11th and 13th year classes, with ages ranging between 14-20 years. Cross sectional research design was used to collect data from public and private sector schools and colleges of Lahore, Pakistan, using convenient sampling. Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire was the assessment tool to collect data which was analyzed through descriptive statistics and One way Independent sample ANOVA and Post hoc analysis. Results from one way ANOVA revealed that ninth class students reported greater difficulties in