Career Decision-Making Difficulties on High School Students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the differences in the career decision making difficulties between the 12th grade students of the mari- time vocational high school and the other 12th grade students of the other high schools in İzmir. The data have been collected using the Career Deci- sion Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) prepared by Gati, Krauz and Osipow (1996) and adapted to Turkish by Bacanli (2008) and Kesici, Hamarta and Arslan (2007) to be applied to high school students. The par- ticipants of the study are 500 high school students. The result of the study reveals that maritime vocational high school students have more difficul- ties in choosing an occupation than the other high school students do. Be- sides the students who have participated in the study have medium diffi- culty level and female and male students have the same difficulty level in career decision making difficulties