Date of Completion

2025

Document Type

Research Project

Degree Name

Grade 12

Keywords

Decision Making

Abstract

Indecisiveness, perfectionism, and anxiety are critical factors that significantly affect the academic decision-making process of students, most especially at this senior high school education level. This study explores the extent these variables interact with each other and relate to academic decision-making among senior high school students in De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute. Using an embedded mixed-method approach, both qualitative and quantitative data have been gathered to adopt a data set. Qualitatively, through in-depth semi-structured interviews with a subsample of students showing high indecisiveness, it explored their lived experience. Quantitatively, it used the following standardized and empirically validated measures, the Indecisiveness Scale, the State Trait of Anxiety Inventory, and the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, which have been direct to the larger study participant pool. Results showed that students have moderate levels of indecisiveness and perfectionism and mild to moderate levels of perfectionism, anxiety and indecisiveness, indicating how these factors together prevent students from making good decisions about their studies. Similarly, on a high level of anxiety, confusion and doubt about self occurred, which similarly made decision-making difficult. This study highlights the major implications of these variables concerning students academic performance and general well being. It calls for the establishment of focused interventions, such as guidance counseling programs and skills-building workshops, which will arm students with appropriate decision-making strategies and coping mechanisms.

First Advisor

Mr. Lord Joseas C. Conwi, LPT, RPm, MAEd, RGC, CMHA, CLSSDC

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