Decisional procrastination of school-to-work transition: Personality correlates of career indecision

• Authors: Augustyn Bańka , Aleksander Hauziński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Procrastination as putting off until tomorrow what one had intended to do today is well-known tendency in everyday life. In an attempt to understand the character of procrastination in different life-domains, a large body of research has been accumulated over the last decades. This article was aimed to evaluate a specific decisional procrastination of school-to-work transition (SWT) that is treated as maturity postponement. Two studies are reported examining SWT procrastination defined as career indecision among Polish students graduating universities. In Study 1 (N=366), attitudinal and identity statuses were analyzed as correlates of career procrastination. A path analysis conducted for the model, which was aimed to explain the influence of career self-efficacy and occupational commitment on career indecision (dependent variable), revealed its very good fitness (RMSEA=.000). Those two independent variables explain 10% of career indecision variance. Stepwise multiple regression analyses conducted to ascertain relationship of five identity statuses (Brzezińska, Piotrowski, 2010) to procrastination measure (career indecision) showed that Commitment Making and Ruminative Exploration are strongest predictor variables. In study 2 (N=157), the stepwise multiple regression analyses conducted to ascertain the independent relationship of each of Big Five personality factor revealed that Neuroticism and Extraversion accounts of the most of explained variance of school-to-work transition procrastination.

Keywords

EN

Decisional procrastination; indecisiveness; career indecision; personality correlates; developmental transition

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 34-44

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-04-18

Contributors

author

Augustyn Bańka

• University of Social Science and Humanities, Katowice

author

Aleksander Hauziński

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0004