DECISION-MAKING STYLE AS A PREDICTOR OF CAREER DECISION-MAKING STATUSAND TREATMENT GAINS

This study investigated the predictability of rational decisionmaking style on career decision-making status and treatment gains based on a computer-based career intervention. Decision-making style, in relation to pretreatment career status as well as its efficacy in predicting i ntervention outcomes, was also examined. Seventy-four undecided univer sity students participated in the study. Results show that employing d ecision-making strategies based on an individual's preference signific antly increased students' career decidedness and decreased career inde cision, choice anxiety, and reason complexity. Rational decision-makin g style is positively associated with career decidedness and negativel y associated with the exploration stage of decision making; it is not, however, predictive of treatment gains.