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CAREER-RELATED DECISION-MAKING DIFFICULTY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG STUDENT SERVICE MEMBERS/VETERANS

Bullock, Victor and Leake, Valerie and Riding-Malon, Ruth and Biermeier-Hanson, Benjamin CAREER-RELATED DECISION-MAKING DIFFICULTY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG STUDENT SERVICE MEMBERS/VETERANS. 2020. Radford University, Dissertation. Radford University Scholars' Repository.

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Abstract

Student service members/veterans (SSM/V) are a unique population who may come to higher education with a host of life experiences. Potentially due to some of the experiences of SSM/V, they often present with certain forms of psychological distress at greater rates than their non-SSM/V counterparts. Despite this fact, previous research has not investigated how vocational factors may contribute to a SSM/V’s distress, particularly vocational decision-making. This is potentially due to a historical dichotomy between vocational issues and mental health, which has resulted in little research being conducted on the relationship between the two. Recent research is beginning to bridge this gap; however, research is lacking on the relationship between career decision-making and vocational distress among SSM/V. The present study utilized a sample of SSM/V to quantify the relationship between career decision-making difficulty and three forms of psychological distress (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and trauma symptoms), in addition to attempting to find evidence of what career resources may buffer the relationship between career decision-making difficulty and psychological distress. Results indicated significant positive relationships between career decision-making difficulty and all three measures of psychological distress and that scores on a measure of career decision-making difficulty can significantly impact in scores for all three psychological distress measures. The findings offer several future research directions, practice implications, and policy implications for universities and organizations serving service members and veterans.

Item Type: Dissertation
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Radford University > College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences > Department of Psychology
Date Deposited: 14 Nov 2021 22:21
Last Modified: 19 Apr 2023 17:00
URI: http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/630

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