Introduction

Elders would say, life is full of choices. In everyday scenarios we undergo

little choices such as what pambahay shirt to wear inside the house, on what food to eat

for dinner, on what ballpen to buy in the store and even on what time to update our social

media statuses. Decision making has been alive since the beginning of human

civilization. But choices never just rotate on the simple matters. As we grow, and as we

get a bit older choices in life becomes heavy. Choosing what to do with one’s life is not

an easy task for most people who have just graduated high school and are preparing for

the exciting new step of heading to college and eventually pursuing career or occupation.

With so many options and such big decisions, it can feel like most of us might never

figure it out.

Career indecision has become a major concern of career psychologists,

practitioners, researchers, and educators (Vignoli, 2009). Braunstein-Bercovitz,

Benjamin, Asor, & Lev, 2012 mentioned that career indecisiveness is a common scenario

for adolescents and young adults. Early adulthood is the developmentally appropriate

time one must begin to make career related decisions, plans, and choices (Vignoli, 2009).

In a study conducted by Creed and Patton (2007) it was revealed that age, gender

and career indecision were predictors of career maturity knowledge. Career are one of the

view that it is not atypical for individuals to experience a certain level of developmental

career indecision, this may be resultant to not having adequate experience and sufficient

knowledge pertaining to the world of work (Gordon and Meyer, 2002). Career decision

can be from own perspective or from people around perspective. But some young adults
and adolescents may experience high levels of stress when they are expected to make

decisions pertaining to a desired career. This stressful period may be too overwhelming

for them. As a result, it may have adverse effects on the quality of their career choice.

Individuals who do not have a definite career choice, experience lower levels of

motivation. Tampouri (2012) claim that a lack of motivation is one of the leading factors

embedded in career indecision among undergraduates.

In addition, according to Creed, Patton and Prideaux (2006), career indecision is

linked to issues related to career development and problems such as society’s

expectations and perceptions, as well as the role of the family which may have an impact

on the student’s ability to make career choices.

This study will focus on the rate of career indecisive senior high school Students

of Francisco E. Barzaga Integrated High School and the influence of familial and peer

interactions and self-efficacy on their career decision making processes.

Family Influence

Bratcher (2007) proposed that family plays a crucial role in the career-decision

making of individuals. Lopez and Andrew (2010) theorized that certain family

interaction enhance effective career-decision making whereas other family interactions

promote and maintain indecision. Moreover, family relationships, specifically parental

attachment, appear to influence the career exploration processes of young adults. The

attachment relationship formed with an individual’s parents may provide a sense of

security, allowing a young adult to begin the career exploration process (Germeijs &

Verschueren, 2009).

Peer Influence

Peer is also one of the indicators of a person to create a decision, As a person go

along with a decision they wanted to be guided with their friends/peers (Macwaggon

2010). But in some cases having a lot of friends may affect one's decision in their lives,

most of the time career is based on what people wants a person to be (Jackson,E. 2009).

Early researches discussed that a peer can push a person to a wrong decision, mostly in

their preferred majors (Alridi,G 2011) as a person go along with their lives there are peers

that affecting their decision making can lead to a not so happy life and not so good

profession. On the other hand peers is good indicator of life in which as stated by

(Kmnona 2007), peers help a person to see their brighter side can be one of people that

motivates, can be one of the stress reliever and can be one of the indicators of right and

wrong.

Self- efficacy

Research defines self-efficacy as an important and influential factor in the career

exploration and decision-making process. “Career self-efficacy is an important

motivational variable as it influences the focus, initiation and persistence of behaviors,

including career behaviors” (Creed et al., 2007). The term Self-efficacy has been used to

define the belief of an individual on his or her ability to engage in certain behaviors in

career related topics. In line with this, Creed, Patton, and Prideaux (2007) found that
students with higher levels of confidence in career decision-making were more likely to

report higher incidences of career exploration than students with lower levels of self-

efficacy. With this finding, the researchers concluded self-efficacy is a key element in the

career exploration process.

The target participants of the present study are the Senior High School students of

Fransisco E. Barzaga Integrated High School, which happen to be the tertiary level of

education and preparatory transition of students in the near college and job experience in

the recently passed republic act of Department of Education, Republic act no. 10533

known as K to 12 Curriculum Program.

Brown et al. (2008) presume the more informed an individual is about career

choices and their abilities, the more likely they are to make career choices as they are

more prepared to do so. In line with this, the researchers target to statistically identify the

number of indecisive senior high school students on their career/college major to pursue.

On the other hand, there must be an understanding of the factors contributing to

indecisiveness to make career related decisions, in order to distribute adequate

information about factors affecting career decision,

Conceptual Framework
Scope and Limitations

The major point of this study is to identify the statistical number of indecisive

senior high school students of Francisco E. Barzaga Integrated High School in regards to

their career/college major to pursue. In addition, investigating the influence of familial

and peer interactions and self-efficacy on their career decision making processes would

also be part of the study.

Importance of the Study

This study will only not exhibit the statistical number of career indecisive senior

high school students of Francisco E. Barzaga Integrated High School but will also

distribute information about the understanding of the social and psychological factors

contributing to the students’ inability to make career related decisions.

This study will be significant to:

Students – which will enable them to determine the level of their indecisiveness and

develop personal understanding of the factors to make career decision.

Parents and peers – which will indicate how significant and generalized others

contribute on the totality of an individual’s career decision making.

School – which will contribute on the school’s assessment regarding students’ career

related issues and will help to ignite programs and seminars that deals with the subject

matter.
Future Researcher - which will serve as data for future references and analysis

regarding the statistical number of career indecisive students’ and the social and

psychological factor that affects the career decision making.

Statement of the problem

The present study aims to evaluate the statistics of career indecisive senior high school

students in Francisco E. Barzaga Integrated High School and assess the number of

students who were affected by the social influence such as family and peer and

psychological influence such self-efficacy on their career exploration process.

Hypothesis

H1. There is no senior high school students in Francisco E. Barzaga Integrated High

School who are undecided on their preferred career and college majors to pursue.

H2. There is 0% rate of social (family and peers) and psychological (self-efficacy)

influence affecting the career/college major decision making of senior high school in

Francisco E. Barzaga Integrated High School

Definition of Terms

Here lies the operationally used key terms that will be encountered along the way.

Career- Operationally used as what someone wishes to pursue as job in the workplace.
Career Expedition Process- Operationally used as the process of information seeking

and decision making in regards to the selection of career path.

Career Indecisiveness- Operationally used as an individual’s inability to decide straight

regarding career related matters.

Psychological Expectation- Operationally used as an internalized norm, an individual’s

self-expectancy.

Social Expectation- Operationally used as outside factors about what an individual

should do according to significant and generalized others specifically family and friends.
 Methodology

Research Design

This study will focus on the rate of career indecisive senior high school Students

of Francisco E. Barzaga Integrated High School and the influence of familial and peer

interactions and self-efficacy on their career decision making processes.

The utilization of mixed method research design is suited for the present study.

According to Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2011), it focuses on collecting,

analyzing, and mixing both quantitative and qualitative data in a single study or series of

studies. Its central premise is that the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches, in

combination, provides a better understanding of research problems than either approach

alone.

An explanatory sequential design will be used as approach on the study being

conducted. According to Plano Clark (2011) it consists of first collecting quantitative

data and then collecting qualitative data to help explain or elaborate on the quantitative

results. The rational for this approach is that the quantitative data and results provide a

general picture of the research problem with more analysis, specifically through

qualitative data collection needed to refine, extend or explain the general picture.

Sampling

This paper employed probability sampling method, specifically purposive

sampling method. In which Purposive or judgmental sampling is a qualitative sampling

method where the researcher uses his/her judgment to select from the population

members who he feels will give him the desired or accurate information. Judgmental
sampling involves the choice of subjects who are well equipped with information that

will be relevant to the researchers focus. (Annum, 2016)

The mentioned sampling method applied is pertinent in the present study because

the chosen respondents are selected under criteria or standards, and based on researchers’

assumptions that these respondents has knowledge about the research topic, has the

capacity to provide the needed information and can accomplish the research problem(s)

and objective(s). The respondents are senior high schools students of Francisco E.

Barzaga Integrated High School within the vicinity Barangay San Jose. The researchers

will select four participants on the surveyed population to be interviewed for qualitative

data.
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