Validity Of The Career Factors Inventory
construct; decidedness; decision scale; dimensions; indecision; Psychology; validation
The present study examined the construct and concurrent validity of the Career Factors Inventory (CFI; Chartrand, Robbins, and Morrill, 1989). The CFI, along with the Career Choice Status Inventory (Savickas, 1993), the Vocational Identity Scale (VIS; Holland, Daiger, and Power, 1980), and the Career Development Inventory-Adult Form II (CDI-A; Super, Zelkowitz, and Thompson, 1975), were completed by 227 college students. Strong support for the CFI's construct validity was provided by a principal components analysis showing four components that paralleled the four scales in the inventory and correlations in the expected direction with age and year in school. Evidence in support of the CFI's concurrent validity was provided by correlations in the expected direction with career decidedness, vocational identity, and career development.
Lewis D M; Savickas M L
Journal of Career Assessment
1995
1995
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279500300104" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279500300104</a>
Refinement And Further Validation Of The Decisional Process Inventory
career factors inventory; indecision; Psychology
Research to initially construct and evaluate the Decisional Process Inventory (DPI; Hartung, 1994) revealed its potential use for assessing progress and problems in career decision making (Hartung, 1995). Advancing this preliminary area of instrument research and development, we report on a study that evaluated a revised version of the measure, the DPI-R. Results from a sample of 183 undergraduate college students (82 women, 101 men) supported the DPI-R item content validity, scale construct validity, and concurrent validity. Factor analysis yielded three factors relating to contact and resistance processes described in a Gestalt model of career decision making and career indecision. Future research with the DPI-R should focus on refining the measure to maximally assess these three latent dimensions of the Gestalt Career Decision-Making Cycle. Ultimately, the DPI-R may contribute unique data for career assessment and counseling practice focused on resolving career indecision.
Hartung P J; Marco C D
Journal of Career Assessment
1998
1998
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/106907279800600203" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/106907279800600203</a>
Family Interaction Patterns And College Student Career Development
adaptability; aspirations; career; circumplex model; construct; decision-making; development; dynamics; Holland's theory; indecision; life-role salience; parental attachment; Psychology; Super's theory; systems perspective; vocational identity; work and family
We examined whether and how family interaction patterns relate to role salience and vocational identity in a predominantly Anglo-American college student sample (107 women, 65 men). Results indicated significant links between perceived emotional closeness and structural flexibility in the family-of-origin and higher levels of participation in, commitment to, and value expectations for home and family roles. Levels of work-role salience and vocational identity were not significantly related to family-of-origin interaction patterns. Appraising and attending to family-of-origin dynamics may be useful career assessment and counseling that involves helping clients understand and fit family into their life-careers. Ultimately, determining with more certainty the precise degree of transportability of the family circumplex model to the vocational domain will require continued research ill this vein.
Hartung P J; Lewis D M; May K; Niles S G
Journal of Career Assessment
2002
2002-02
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072702010001005" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072702010001005</a>
Validity Of The Decisional Process Inventory
career choice process; career decision; career decision making; career indecision; college-students; decisional process inventory; difficulties; DPI; indecision; Psychology; validation
Marco C D; Hartung P J; Newman I; Parr P
Journal of Vocational Behavior
2003
2003-08
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-8791(02)00018-0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/s0001-8791(02)00018-0</a>
Behavioral exploration of career and specialty choice in medical students
Psychology; indecision
Understanding the process by which students naturally construct and internalize their educational experiences relating to career development is important to career counseling. The author investigated how exploratory behaviors during a community-based field experience course contributed to the vocational development of 1st-year medical students. Behavioral exploration data regarding medical career development and specialty decision making were collected from 91 first-year medical students before and after they engaged in an exploratory behavioral activity, the Ambulatory Care Experience course. Findings suggest that students had not progressed in their medical career development and that more uncertainty existed among students after completing the course.
Borges N J
Career Development Quarterly
2007
2007-06
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.2007.tb00089.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1002/j.2161-0045.2007.tb00089.x</a>
Career decidedness as a predictor of subjective well-being
Big-five personality traits; Career decidedness; Career decision making; Career indecision; college-students; decisional process inventory; depression; happiness; indecision; model; personality; Psychology; satisfaction; Subjective well-being
Forming, pursing, and achieving life tasks constitute important determinants of subjective well-being (SWB). A principal life task for emerging adults involves deciding about career goals. Prior research indicates that depression predicts SWB and may be linked to lower levels of career decidedness. We tested whether or not career decidedness predicts SWB above and beyond the influence of depression and other personality traits. We also examined whether or not career decidedness partially mediates depression's influence on SWB when controlled for personality effects. Undergraduate students (N =181; 65% female, 52% Asian) responded to measures of career decidedness. SWB, and personality. Results largely confirmed predictions. A partial mediator model indicated a direct relationship between decidedness and SWB not moderated by grade level, and an inverse relationship between the depression facet of neuroticism and both career decidedness and SWB. Findings further support career interventions to increase decidedness during the first year of college. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Uthayakumar R; Schimmack U; Hartung P J; Rogers J R
Journal of Vocational Behavior
2010
2010-10
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2010.07.002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jvb.2010.07.002</a>
Specific and Diversive Career Exploration During Late Adolescence
antecedents; behavior; career; college-students; confidence; decision-making process; diversive; employability; exploration; high-school-students; indecision; perspective; planning; Psychology; self-efficacy; specific; validation; Vocational identity
The exploration literature suggests that career exploration may be separated into two distinct forms. Diversive career exploration involves learning broadly about the world of work and the self, whereas specific career exploration involves an in-depth investigation focused on aligning one's perceptions of self and career prospects. The goal of the current study was to validate the structure of career exploration over time as being composed of diversive and specific forms. The study was conducted on a diverse sample of 308 college and work-bound youth, 19-22 years old, who were assessed annually three times. Structural equation modeling was used to test a longitudinal measurement model and the structural relationships corresponding to the noted distinction between the forms of exploration. Associations between exploration and several additional indicators of career development were further assessed. The results support the theoretically derived distinction between diversive and specific career exploration and demonstrate that they are differentially linked to career indecision, confidence, and planning. Implications for research and practice are offered in light of the results.
Porfeli E J; Skorikov V B
Journal of Career Assessment
2010
2010-02
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/1069072709340528" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/1069072709340528</a>