The current research examined differences in career decision-making profiles (CDMP) between American and Chinese university students, as well as the meditational mechanisms possibly underlying these cultural differences. The results of a survey among American (N = 929) and Chinese (N = 945) undergraduates showed that Chinese participants scored significantly higher on consulting with others, desire to please others, willingness to compromise, dependence on others, procrastination, but lower on aspiration for an ideal occupation, internal locus of control, and effort invested in career decision-making than did the American participants. Using a model based on self-construals and subjective cultural norms, we established that interdependent self-construal, independent self-construal and the The dimensions of CDMP include information gathering (IG, the degree to which individuals are thorough in collecting information), information processing (IP, the degree to which individuals analyze and process information into its components), locus of control (LC, the degree to which individuals believe their career future is controlled by external forces rather than by themselves), effort invested in the process (EI, the amount of time and effort invested in the decision-making process), procrastination (PR, the degree to which individuals delay beginning or advancing through the career decision-making process), speed of making the final decision (SP, whether individuals quickly make final decisions once the information has been collected), consulting with others (CO, the extent to which individuals consult with others during the various stages of decision process), dependence on others (DO, the degree to which individuals expect others to make the decision for them), desire to please
