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The difficulties of Slovenian high-school students in deciding on further education
Miha Zagoričnik & Sonja Pečjak
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Abstract: In research we investigated the difficulties faced by Slovenian high school students when choosing a university programme. A theoretical taxonomy of career decision making difficulties proposed by Gati, Krausz and Osipow was examined with Career decision making difficulties Questionnaire which was translated into Slovenian language and adapted to the context of choosing a university programme. The questionnaire was administrated to a sample of 179 fourth grade high school students. The results showed that students in general face small to medium difficulties when choosing a university programme. They have the greatest difficulties in the fields of general indecisiveness, disfunctional beliefs, and lack of information about existing university programmes, and the smallest in the fields of external conflicts and lack of motivation. In general there were no important differences in difficulties between boys and girls. The exception was the field of lack of motivation, where girls reported fewer difficulties than boys. Determined students reported fewer difficulties than undetermined. When comparing the empirical structure of high school students' difficulties when choosing the university programme to theoretical taxonomy of career decision making difficulties, we found more differences than similarities.
Keywords: career, career decision-making, high school students
