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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between career perspectives measured by the questions of career choice after graduating senior high school and of the consideration of vocation in the future and career indecision measured by the 16 subscales of educational indecision and vocational indecision developed by Shimizu (1989). The subjects of this research were 773 junior high school students in total. The career choices after graduating senior high school were classified into four categories ; university, college, vocation, and undecided. On the 16 subscales independently, two-way analysis of variance tests for the two factors from these four categories and the three response categories regarding their future vocations ("already decided", "have a vague idea", and "have no idea") were used. A number of significant differences on the subscales of educational indecision were found to be due to both career choice after senior high school and the consideration of future vocation. On the subscales of vocation! indecision, a number of significant differences were found to be due only to the latter factor, A canonical discriminate analysis for 16 subscales of career indecision was used to classify 12 subgroups constructed by the combination of above categories. Results demonstrated significants distances among these 12 subgroups on two dimensions.
