Career Decidedness of College Students

Abstract

The concept of career is important for people who are or are likely to be in business life. The concept ofcareer decidedness refers to the individual's commitment to his or her choice of career and his or hersatisfaction with this choice. The aim of the study was to determine the career decidedness of collegestudents in the field of sports sciences and to examine these decidedness according to different variablessuch as gender/sex, age, work experience and department. The research was carried out usingquantitative research methods. A total of 633 students from Kastamonu University School of Educationand Sports participated in the study (Turkey). The Career Decidedness Scale which consists of 6 itemsand one sub-dimension and adapted to Turkish by Akçakanat and Uzunbacak (2019) was use as theinstrument tool. As a result it was determined that the career decidedness level of the participatingstudents was moderate. In addition, it was found that the level of decidedness of male participants washigher than females. Also, a positive correlation was found between the participants' age and workexperience parameter and career decidedness.