Relationships Among Occupation Attributional Style, Work Values And Career Decision-making Difficulties In Undergraduates

Occupation not only can help an individual to earn a living, but also a way that can helpan individual to feel his self-worth. Everyone wants to seek a dreaming career. Careerdecision-making difficulty is typically defined as involving all the problems and challengesthat need to be dealt with prior to, during, or after the decision-making process; thesedifficulties can be sorted into three dimensions: lack of readiness, the lack of information andthe inconsistent information. Undergraduates are on the preliminary stage of career choicesand career orientation, a critical time in individual’s career development that they lackworking experience, so diverse decision-making difficulties would be caused. Under thecircumstance, the research on the career decision-making difficulties of Undergraduatesprovides not only for university’s employment situation and graduate distribution system butalso provides a theory basis to carry out targeted career guidance. The purpose of this study ison the basis of understanding the present status of Undergraduates’ career decision-makingdifficulty, to discuss the relationships among undergraduates’ occupation attributional style,work values and career decision-making difficulties, in order to put forward certain theoreticaland practical basis in the college students’ career decision-making.A total of569undergraduates were chosen randomly from a university. Research toolswere the version of career decision-making difficulties scale revised by Taiwan scholars TianXiulan (2001), profession attributional style questionnaire authorized by Hu Yanjun revision(2009) and profession values questionnaire compiled by Ling Wenquan et al (1999).Implemente questionnaire survey, carried on ANOVA to explore the differences and the statusquo of the demographic variables in the undergraduates’ occupation attributional style, workvalues and career decision-making difficulties, Through the correlation discusses therelationships among undergraduates’ occupation attributional style, work values and careerdecision-making difficulties, Through the regression analysis to explore the occupationattributional style and work values attribution for career decision-making difficulties. The main findings are as follows:1. Career decision-making difficulties of undergraduates are moderate, inconsistentinformation dimension gets the highest scores. The scores of career decision-makingdifficulties in undergraduates do not have significant differences at grade, gender, major.There is significant major difference in lack of readiness, and a significant gender differencein the lack of information.2. In occupation attributional style, undergraduates tend to due the positive and negativeevents to internal, stable and controllable factors. This status of attribution is very good, so itis good for undergraduates to adapt to the future career.3. Undergraduates’ work values are moderate. Hygiene factor scored the highest, andreputation factor scored the lowest.4. In occupation attributional style, each dimension of positive and negative events issignificantly related to career decision-making difficulties, and in work values only reputationfactor has a weak negative correlation with career decision-making difficulties.5. For negative events’s controllable in occupation attributional style can well predictcareer decision-making difficulties. Only reputation factor in work values can predict careerdecision-making difficulties. Both of them also have joint prediction function to careerdecision-making difficulties.