Career Indecision from the Perspective of Time Orientation
Career Indecision from the Perspective of Time Orientation

Summary/Abstract: The present study focuses on the link between career indecision status and time perspectiveof high school students. Previous works mainly investigated the relationship between futureorientation and career indecision, neglecting attitudes towards other time perspectivedimensions, such as the past and the present. Therefore, our aim was to overcome this hiatusby using the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999) and CareerFactor Inventory (Chartrand, Robbins, Morrill & Boggs, 1990) in a sample of 683 high schoolstudents. By considering variable-centered and person-centered analyses, results suggestthat scores on TP factors are closely associated with the career indecision type that onecan be classified into. “Path seeker” and “Ready to decide” students have a balanced timeperspective; “Chronically indecisive” youngsters have a time perspective pattern which isdominated by the past negative factor and they are less future-oriented; “Choice anxious”students have scores lower on all TP factors (except Past-Negative TP) than any other group.

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