Subclinical anxiety and career indecision among undergraduate and postgraduate senior batch students

Komathi. K. M

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.72942

Subclinical anxiety and career indecision among undergraduate and postgraduate senior batch students

Author(s)	Komathi. K. M
Country	India
Abstract	Abstract Post-college career The move to professional practice is a landmark period in the lives of final year undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students in India, often linked with severe psychological issues including subclinical anxiety and career uncertainty. Subclinical anxiety can be described as the consistent symptoms of anxiety that impair normal functioning but do not reach a diagnostic level of a clinical disorder, which may intensify vocational decision-making problems. The given cross-sectional research study explores the connection between subclinical anxiety and career indecision in 294 final-year students that were recruited in various Indian colleges. The participants were filtered based on the exclusion criteria which did not include people who had been diagnosed with any psychological condition especially anxiety disorders which are beyond the subclinical threshold and those who were not in their final term. To measure subclinical anxiety, Jamovi software was used to run data through the Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) and measure career indecision by running data through the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ). Moderate subclinical anxiety (M = 9.6. SD = 2.69) and career indecision (M = 4.56, SD = 1.53) were found as results of descriptive statistics. The non-normality was detected by normality tests (Shapiro-Wilk) and, therefore, Spearman correlation was used in which the correlation coefficient r was non-significant and positive, (0.095, p=0.103). Such results indicate that subclinical anxiety is not a strong predictor of career indecision in this Indian sample, which could be because of such cultural protective elements like familial support. However, the findings also support the need to employ integrated mental-health/career interventions in Indian higher education, and they are supported by the discussion of implications to counselling. Study limitations, and future research directions.
Keywords	Keywords: subclinical anxiety, career indecision, final-year students, India, GAD-7, CDDQ.
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-04-16
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.72942

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