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Career choice:The relationship between personality, state anxiety and the career decidedness among Swedish upper secondary school students / Karriärval : Gymnasieelevers beslutsamhet i relation till personlighet och oro/Career choice:The relationship between personality, state anxiety and the career decidedness among Swedish upper secondary school students

The main purpose of this study was to inquire into personality and the state anxiety in relation to career decidedness scale among students in upper secondary school. The participants were 124 students in three grades and respectively non vocationally oriented classes. The participants were asked to grade themselves on a scale in relation to the statements regarding, state of decidedness for career choice, personality (NEO FFI, Costa & McCrae, 1985. Sweden, Gerontologic Center) and anxiety (AnTI, Wells, 1994). The results showed no significant relationship between personality and state of anxiety that could be connected to the decidedness for career choice. Ecologic validity is brought up in the discussion part. / josef.askevik@ltblekinge.se 0705-547 109

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:bth-1165
Date January 2008
CreatorsAskevik, Josef
PublisherBlekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för management
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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