Effects of the Deliberate Decision-Making Style on Career Decision-Making Processes and Coping With Regret After High School Hideo Ueichi, Naoko Kuriyama, Takahiro Saito, & Takashi Kusumi |
This study examined how the factors associated with high school students' decisionmaking
styles affect their choice-of-university behaviors and goal achievement
behaviors to pass the entrance examinations and analyzed the effects of this
decision-making style and affiliations on their emotions and ability to cope with
regret after graduation. We surveyed 318 senior high school students and followed
up with them for six months after graduation. In Study I, to clarify the relation
between these factors and behaviors, the data were analyzed using structural
equation modeling. The results indicated that two types of sub processes were active
during the career decision-making processes: the choice-behavior decision-making
process and the goal-achievement-behavior process. In Study 2, students who
tended to have the high-deliberate style when deciding to take admission to their
affiliation felt less regret and disappointment about their affiliation. These
investigations stress the importance of high school students being encouraged to
deliberate carefully about their academic future. Key words: decision-making style, career decision-making, regret, entrance examination, high school student |