Personality and career decision making in undergraduates

Abstract

The relationships between personality and career decision making in undergraduates are analyzed in this work. The hypothesis is that efficient personality is associated with the more mature process of career decision making. For this hypothesis, the Questionnaire of Efficient Personality and the Inventory of Career Factors was administered to 497 students in their final year of undergraduate school. The collected data was put under factorial analysis, analysis of differences of averages, and analysis of variance. The results confirm that an effective personality is tied to career decision making based as much on one´s knowledge of oneself as an understanding of the working world.

Keywords

• Personality
• Career decision making
• Career development
• Undergraduates
• Personalidad
• Toma de decisiones vocacionales
• Desarrollo vocacional
• Estudiantado universitario