Open AccessVocational Decision Making and Anxiety during the Coronavirus 19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Jorge Luis Lozano-Gutiérrez,
Beatriz Mabel Pacheco-Amigo,
Emma Perla Solís-Recéndez,
Francisco Javier Rodríguez-García
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de políticas universitarias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2523-2487
DOI - 10.35429/jup.2021.14.5.13.18
Subject(s) - vocational education , anxiety , psychology , pandemic , cronbach's alpha , coronavirus , reliability (semiconductor) , affect (linguistics) , clinical psychology , applied psychology , medical education , covid-19 , psychometrics , medicine , pedagogy , psychiatry , power (physics) , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , communication
Vocational decision making and anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic. The objective of this research is to identify the relationship between vocational decision making and anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic. The study is descriptive, cross-sectional, non-experimental, correlational. The study subjects are high school students who are at the time of making a vocational decision. The students were selected using the snowball technique since they were not in the classrooms of educational institutions during the semester period from January to July 2021. The variables of the study are vocational decision-making and anxiety in times of coronavirus pandemic. The reliability of the evaluation instruments such as the Herrera and Montes Interests and Aptitudes Questionnaire and the Beck anxiety test were obtained. Locating the correlation between the variables. The SPSS statistical package was used for data analysis. The obtained results, in terms of the reliability of the instruments that place them on a Cronbach's Alpha, are between .8 and .9 each of them. The main conclusion is that the relationship between anxiety and vocational decision is not important for vocational decision making since anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic does not affect vocational decision.