A Qualitative Study of Career Decision Making and its Associated Difficulties in Indian Adolescents

The current study titled ‘A Qualitative Analysis of Career Decision Making and its Associated Difficulties in Indian Adolescents’ was an attempt to understand the Career Decision Making Difficulties and Factors associated with it, for the Male and Female Participants from the Streams of Education (Arts, Science, Commerce & Management) in Bangalore, India.  The study involved conduction of interviews with 23 Students from the above mentioned sample who answered the five constructs formulated by the researcher.

Results on the Qualitative Research showed that there were differences seen across Genders and Streams of Education on their responses with respect to Decisional Status and Confidence, Nature of Difficulties. While on Important Aspects that go into CDM process, Changes Incorporated in CDM saw gender Differences, the responses mostly overlapped for Streams of Education. Several suggestions for programs and interventional purposes were put forth by the Participants.