Marziyeh Malekiha; Batool Motamedi
Volume 7, Issue 2 , September 2021, , Pages 43-67
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigationy on effectiveness of career counseling based on Cognitive Information Processing approach on the reduction of career indecision of second section of secondary school’s female students in county of Borkhar. This research is a semi-experimental research ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigationy on effectiveness of career counseling based on Cognitive Information Processing approach on the reduction of career indecision of second section of secondary school’s female students in county of Borkhar. This research is a semi-experimental research with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of this study included all 10th grade female students in second grade in Borkhar county in the academic year of 2016-2017 and 30 people were selected by available coincidence way. They were distributed in control group (15 person) and experimental group (15 person). In this experimental group, seven sessions of Cognitive Information Processing Approach were performed. The data were analyzed using indecision questionnaire (Osipow et al., 1987) and the features of descriptive and deductive statistics. Findings indicate that the career counseling based on Cognitive Information Processing approach was effective on reduction of career indecision in the experimental control group (P <0.05). Also, the result of this study shows that there is a significant difference in the scattering component and internal and external barriers in both experimental and control groups (P <0.05).