Understanding the Career-Decision Ambiguity Tolerance among College Students: A Conceptual Framework Linking Ambiguity Tolerance and Emotional Regulation

Career decision making is the gradual process, often involved challenges, uncertainty difficulty in making career choices & decision. Especially final year college students. Students faced more challenges in their career-decision making, due to the situational stressors, like employment, economic status, career outcomes. How students cope with career uncertainty, through the emotional regulation and ambiguity tolerance. Ambiguity tolerance has been identified as a crucial factor, in individual difference influencing how people respond to uncertain situations. Simultaneously the emotional regulation creates a significant impact on ambiguity tolerance, during the decision-making processes. This paper integrates existing theories on ambiguity tolerance and emotional regulation to propose a theoretical model for explaining the career decision making. This proposal model suggests that higher ambiguity tolerance facilitates adaptive career decisions and ambiguity tolerance also affected by emotional regulation, especially overcome from the difficult, ambiguity situations. This paper offers theoretical insights and directions for further empirical research and career guidance interventions. This conceptual paper investigate the impact of ambiguity tolerance among college students and how the emotional regulation mediating the role of ambiguity tolerance. The correlational study understanding the relationship between emotional regulation and ambiguity tolerance among students. Descriptive study of the ambiguity tolerance and how it related to the career outcomes. The research design was cross-sectional correlational research design. Sample of 200 final year college students recriuted through systematic sampling. Standardized and validated scales will be used to measure the variables. The findings very helpful to understand the student career ambiguity tolerance and very helpful to career counseling and very helpful to future insight.