Validating a model of the career indecision construct: A confirmatory study on three career indecision instruments
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to validate a model of the career indecision construct. Built on the past research, a model of the career indecision construct was proposed and tested against three alternative models through confirmatory factor analyses with a competing model strategy. Items of the Career Decision Scale, Career Factors Inventory, and Career Decision Difficulties Questionnaire were used for the factorial procedures. It was found that the proposed model provided the best data fit based on two first-year undecided college student samples. Moreover, the proposed model was found to be reliable based on the results from cross-validation procedures and from item-parcel factoring analyses. Therefore, this model of the career indecision construct was validated. Based on this model, the career indecision construct contains six factors: Lack of Information, Need for Information, Trait Indecision, Disagreement with others, Identity Diffusion, and Choice Anxiety. The implications of the result for career counseling, career theory building, and future research were discussed.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Kelly, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Academic guidance counseling|Vocational education
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