Development and evaluation of a measure of fear of commitment.
Journal of Counseling PsychologyPublished 1 January 1990
Deborah A. Serling, Nancy E. Betz
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Abstract
The purpose of this series of studies was to examine the utility of fear of commitment in understanding the differences between career undecidedness vs. more complicated and chronic career indecisiveness. Undecided and decided college students were targeted on the basis of the hypothesis that educational indecision comprises a cognitive and behavioral pattern that is related to career indecision and may be related to career indecisiveness
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