Multiple subtypes among vocationally undecided college students: A model and assessment instrument.

The purpose of this study was to develop a Korean Career Indecision Inventory (K-CII) applicable to Korean university students. A total procedure of five steps was conducted to develop and validate the scale. The K-CII comprises five factors: Lack of Career Information, Lack of Necessity Recognition, Lack of Self-Identity, Indecisiveness, and External Barrier. The External Barrier includes the items of financial difficulty, parents, the tendency for academy cliques to dominate, and age, representing factors specific to Korean culture. The same five factors consistently emerged in Steps 2, 3, and 5. In addition, the results of the confirmatory factor analysis in Step 3 showed that the five-factor solution had a good fit to the data. Internal consistency reliabilities and test-retest reliabilities showed that the K-CII was reasonably reliable. The K-CII factors were significantly related to similar constructs such as decidedness and certainty factors of career maturity, supporting the convergent validity. The K-CII total score and factors also showed significant correlations with various mental health variables, supporting the criterion-related validity of the K-CII. Finally, the implications of the results and the need for future studies were pointed out.

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Development of the Korean Career Indecision Inventory

Tak

Lee

2003

“…This finding supports the movement in the career-indecision literature to define career indecision as more complex than whether a person is decided or undecided. For example, Jones and Chenery (1980) argued it is important to investigate career-decision status comfort and reasons for career indecision along with career decidedness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The second goal of this study was to further examine the four subtypes of individuals proposed by Jones and Chenery (1980) and Jones (1989). Using CDP scores to categorize individuals, we identified 55% of our sample as decided-comfortable, 23.3% as decided-uncomfortable, 4% as undecidedcomfortable, and 17.3% as undecided-uncomfortable.…”

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confidence: 99%

Personality Correlates of Jones' Three-Dimensional Model of Career Indecision

Lucas

Wanberg

1995

Jones recently developed the Career Decision Profile (CDP; 1989).The CDP assesses career indecision, how comfortable individuals are with their career-decision status, and reasons for career indecision.According to Jones' vocational decision-status model, the CDP can be used to categorize individuals into four subtypes: decidedcomfortable, decided-uncomfortable, undecided-comfortable, and undecided-uncomfortable. This study investigated the personality correlates of the CDP and the utility of Jones' scale for identifying the career subtypes. The CDP subscales correlated with several personality variables in the expected directions, and results indicated some support using the CDP to categorize individuals into the four decidedness-comfort subtypes.Career indecision (the state of being unsure about one's choice of a college major or future career) affects many high-school students, college students, and adults. Unfortunately, efforts to help career-undecided individuals are hindered by a limited understanding of career indecision (Jones, 1989). Researchers and counselors, for example, now realize that career indecision is a complex construct (Slaney, 1988). Individuals have different reasons for being undecided, and they vary in the degree to which being undecided is emotionally upsetting. Cooper, Fuqua, and Hartman (1984) suggest that to fully understand career indecision there is a need for exploring its component parts. A recent trend has been for researchers to propose different subtypes of career indecision using scales or statistical techniques (e.g.is no widespread empirical support for any of the types of career indecision that have been proposed. Jones (1989) recently developed the CDP, a scale that can be used to differentiate individuals facing career concerns. The CDP assesses how decided people are, how comfortable individuals are with their careerdecision status, and reasons for career indecision. Four reasons for career indecision are assessed: self-clarity (how clearly people understand their Correspondence should be addressed to Connie Wanberg,

“…The model of career indecision that guided our research, the vocational decision status model, was proposed by Jones and Chenery (1980). The model hypothesizes career indecision to be a three-dimensional construct.…”

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The Neurotic Dimension of Vocational Indecision: Gender Comparability?

Meldahl

Muchinsky

1997

This study examines the relationship between neuroticism and career indecision in separate samples of men and women. College students (151 men, 183 women) constituted the samples. Career indecision was measured by the Career Decision Profile (CDP; Jones, 1989). Constructs used in the study that assess neuroticism included perceived stress, positive and negative affectivity, and state-trait anxiety. In addition, five life history factors predictive of vocational decision-making were also included. Separate cluster analyses were performed for each sample, resulting in two 2-cluster solutions. The first, the maladaptive clusters (high in stress, anxiety, and negative affectivity), emerged for both genders. The second clusters did not replicate across gender. Women in the second cluster, who were well-adapted, exhibited strong academic and scientific interests. The second cluster for men, although exhibiting low stress and anxiety, did not have high scores on any career decision-making variables. The results are discussed in the context of gender differences and the neurotic dimension of career indecision.A recent review of career and vocational assessment by Spokane and Jacob (1996) described the current state of research on the construct of career indecision. Some of the most recent findings suggest that career indecision has two components: One pertains to a healthy and normal stage in the crystallization of preferences that involves being undecided; the other is characterized by a broader affliction involving neuroticism. This neuroticism manifests itself in anxiety over many facets of decision-making, including career choices. Recent research has examined the neurotic component of career indecision. Chartrand, Rose, Elliott, Marmarosh, and Caldwell (1993) tested three models of indecision. The major finding from the study was that neuroticism was strongly related to general problem solving confidence as well as to the affective antecedents of indecision. In a similar study, Meyer and Winer (1993) reported a direct relationship