مستوى صعوبات اتخاذ القرار المهني وعلاقتها ببعض المتغيرات الديموغرافية لدى طلبة جامعة الطائف

making difficulties, and to know the differences in the level of career decision-making difficulties among Taif University students, according to their differences in the variables of gender, specialization, age, academic level, and years of education. The researcher used the descriptive survey method. The researcher used the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) prepared by (Gati and Saka (2001). The sample consisted of (298) underadeuate students (age avarege = 20.6 years, SD = 1.57), both males and females, who were randomly selected. The research results revealed that 57% of the respondents believe that making a career decision is difficult, compared to 17% who stated that it is not difficult, while 26% saw it as medium difficulty. The results showed an average level of the total degree of difficulties, career decision-making main and secondary dimensions, the difficulties before engaging in the career decision-making process, and the difficulties during the career decision-making process. The results also showed that the level of difficulties before engaging in the career decision-making process was higher than the difficulties during the career decision-making process among the respondents. The results revealed that the level of difficulties due to lack of readiness to make a decision was the highest among the respondents, then the difficulties due to lack of sufficient information to make a career decision, then the difficulties related to contradictory and inconsistent information. The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences according to the variable of gender, age or educational level in the total score of the career decision-making difficulties scale, pre-career decision-making difficulties, difficulties during the career decision-making process, or any of the main or secondary difficulties. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences according to the variable of the number of years of education in the difficulties due to internal conflict (students who had more years of education had fewer difficulties in making career decisions due to internal conflict compared to students who had fewer years of education), while the results showed that there was no statistically significant differences in the rest of the difficulties according to the variable years of education. Moreover, the results showed that there were statistically significant differences according to the variable of specialization in the difficulties due to general hesitation (students of scientific majors have difficulties in making career decisions due to general hesitation more than students of literary majors), while the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the rest of the difficulties according to the variable of specialization. Furthermore, the results revealed that the students, regardless of their difference in gender, specialization, and academic level, had the same order of difficulties associated with lack of readiness, while the results showed a different order of difficulties associated with lack of information or inconsistent information.
Keywords: career decision, career decision-making difficulties, decision-making, university student, Taif University.