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Subject: Human Development and family studies × Author: Murry, Renabeni T. × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Career Decision Making, Marriage Attitude and Identity Development of Emerging Adults: Correlates and Intervention
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-09) Murry, Renabeni T.; Pujar, Lata
    The study was conducted under the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, to know about career decision making, marriage attitude and identity development of emerging adults, its correlates and intervention. The sample consisted of 670 graduating emerging adults randomly selected from 11 colleges and 120 employed selected through snow ball sampling from Dharwad Taluk during the year 2015-17. Fourteen graduating and four employed emerging adults were interviewed and presented as case summaries. Career decision making difficulty questionnaire, dimensions of identity development scale, marital scale, mate preference questionnaires, socio-economic status (SES) scale, self-efficacy scale and big five inventory were used in the study. Results revealed that majority of graduating emerging adults had moderate level of career decision making difficulty (64 %), high intend to marry (56 %) and aspects of marriage (76 %). Graduating emerging adults from arts stream had more career decision making difficulties followed by commerce and science. Age, personality, SES, parent’s education and occupation influenced career decision making difficulties of graduating group with father’s education (5.5 %) as the greatest contributor while for employed group personality, self-efficacy and father’s education had significant influence with emotional stability (19.5 %) as greatest contributor. Personality, self-efficacy and SES significantly influenced marriage variables for both groups. Extroversion (1.2 %), emotional stability (2.1 %) and agreeableness (6.4 %) for graduating group while agreeableness (9.6 %) and gender (9.5 %) contributed greatest variances for marriage variables in employed group. For both groups, personality influenced four dimensions of identity. Self-efficacy, parent’s education and occupation had influence on graduating group. The greatest predictors for identity dimensions were openness to experience for both groups with conscientiousness and self-efficacy as additional predictors for employed group. Intervention on career guidance and planning was given to graduating emerging adults from arts stream which significantly impacted in reducing career decision making difficulty.