Individual Variations Within the Vocational Decision Making Process: A Review and Integration

Abstract

lated to vocational decision making and decision making style. Since the writings of Dewey (1933), theorists have been interested in the process individuals use for decision making. The recent focus on vocational decision making style (Miller & Tiedeman, 1972; Krum-boltz, 1979; Harren, 1979) implies that individual differences are an important aspect of vocational decision making, yet, no comprehensive view of the decision making process has been presented. A large quan-tity of the decision making research is presented from the perspective of identifying specific individual variations found in the decision pro-cess. A second viewpoint in the literature is composed of descriptive, step by step models of how the decision making process occurs in gen-eral (Janis & Mann, 1977; Jepsen & Dilley, 1974). Authors of vocational decision making style taxonomies who offer theoretical and observa-tional views of the decision process (Dinklage, 1968; Arroba, 1977; Johnson, 1978; Harren, 1979; Krumboltz, 1979) have made little refer-

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