Career : Indecision and Indecisiveness

Annapoorni Balan Principal, IUEf SECRETARY GENERAL, The UN volunteers for Pooma Educational Trust

Career indecision and indecisiveness

The career indecision construct is used in the literature to underline the problems that can
arise during career decision-making. The construct is designed to explain why some individuals experience uncertainty about their educational and vocational future while others are more involved and confident in making their own choices.

From a theoretical point of view, different approaches can be used to examine different
aspects of indecision . The vocational interests approach, holds that indecision results from difficulties in personal and vocational identity and from insufficient crystallization of interests.
One of the theory categorizes individuals into six personality types that correspond to specific professional areas.
 Accordingly, individuals who belong simultaneously to two or more types could be more
 undecided about which career path to take. Individuals with low scores in all personality types could also have interests that are not sufficiently defined to lead to a clear career choice. Another possibility is that individuals with high scores in all personality types could have so many interests that they cannot come to a clear decision. Finally, individuals with a wide range of skills could have difficulties in choosing among the various alternatives.

According to Super’s approach (1953), indecision can correspond to a normal stage of career
development. Osipow (1999) supports the thesis, developed earlier, that indecision should not necessarily be considered a persistent problem but rather a normal stage that all people go through during their lifetime. It is possible to distinguish between evolutive indecision (indecision), which corresponds to a normal stage in life in terms of development, and chronic or generalized indecision, known as indecisiveness, which is a personality characteristic that manifests itself in the difficulty that certain individuals have in taking decisions in any contexts of their lives.

More recently, distinguished between undecided individuals (characterized by a momentary inability
to choose but having the potential to make decisions based on their development level, the
availability of information, and their decisional  training and social support), and indecisive
individuals (characterized by chronic anxiety and lack of problem-solving abilities).

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