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Article: Career choice anxiety, coping, and perceived control. (Articles).
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Extrapolating from D. H. Barlow (2000), the authors explored whether perceived control moderated the relation between coping with career indecision and choice anxiety among 126 women in low-level jobs. Analyses of the women s career indecision, coping, perceived control, and career choice anxiety scores through regression identified the moderator effect. Perceived control interacted with problem-focused coping to increase accountable variance in choice anxiety (p
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Studies confirm the association of choice anxiety and career indecision (Fuqua & Hartman, 1983; Fuqua, Seaworth, & Newman, 1987; O'Hare & Tamburri, 1986). These studies, however, are primarily of ...