What Do You Want to be When You Grow up? Cognitive Flexibility Influences Career Decision-Making and Related Anxiety

We examined the relationships between career-indecision-related anxiety, career indecision, and cognitive flexibility in undergraduate students facing career uncertainty. While cognitive flexibility did not mediate the relationship between career-indecision-related anxiety and career indecision, our results suggest it could promote decision-making, thus relieving anxiety as students undertake this complicated decision-making process.