The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making was examined in a sample of college students (n = 275). Three hypotheses were proposed regarding the direct prediction of ambiguity tolerance on career indecision, the indirect prediction of ambiguity tolerance on career indecision through environmental and self explorations, and the moderation effect of ambiguity tolerance on the link of environmental and self explorations with career indecision. Results supported the significance of ambiguity tolerance with respect to career indecision, finding that it directly predicted general indecisiveness, dysfunctional beliefs, lack of information, and inconsistent information, and moderated the prediction of environmental exploration on inconsistent information. The implications of this study are discussed and suggestions for future research are provided.
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- The Role of Ambiguity Tolerance in Career Decision Making
- Xu, Hui (Author)
- Tracey, Terence (Author)
- College of Integrative Sciences and Arts (Contributor)
- Digital object identifier: 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.04.001
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value0001-8791
- NOTICE: this is the author's final version of a work that was accepted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 85, 18-26. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.04.001, opens in a new window
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Xu, Hui, & Tracey, Terence J. G. (2014). The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making. JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 85(1), 18-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.04.001