CAREER – A FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND PERPLEXION AMONG STUDENTS

Career decision, a turning phase in students' life is often discussed by them. It is one of the life driven and influential decision of one's life. Ambiguity, double mind, alternative options etc. are the common traits witnessed in the students while making a decision. There are many causal factors i.e.family, social, academic, financial etc. in career conflict. The research has been carried out with the primary aim to find out if family conflict and educational conflict plays any role in career conflict among the students. To analyze them, Career Conflict Scale by Dr. Aneet Kumar was used. It is a five-point Likert scale. There are total 62 statements which multiple choice options and with the purposive sampling technique, 1000 students were the part of the research. An analysis was done using a statistical test Regression runon SPSS and the results show that 56 % conflict that students face is due to the social and educational conflict which even includes bickering. Moreover, the social conflict has a positive association with career conflict whereas educational conflict has a negative correlation with career conflict.