The Career Decision Profile: Using a Measure of Career Decision Status in Counseling

Abstract

The Career Decision Profile (CDP) is useful in career counseling. The CDP was developed from a three-dimensional model of career decision status (Decidedness, Comfort, and Reasons), and data on the validity and reliability for its six scales are provided. The CDP can be used by counselors to (a) explore clients' career indecision, (b) screen for readiness, (c) determine the appropriate level of career services needed, and (d) evaluate counseling outcomes. We conclude with a description of the results from a survey of counselors who have used the CDP in career counseling.

The Impact of Career Exploration on Career Development Among Hong Kong Chinese University Students

“…Self-clarity (α = .77) was measured by the two items of the 3-item self-clarity scale of the Career Decision Profile (CDP; Jones, 1989;Jones & Lohmann, 1998). Jones (1989) found correlations between self-clarity and vocational identity measures that supported the validity of this measure.…”

Differentiation Levels of College Students: Effects on Vocational Identity and Career Decision Making

“…The sixth, Career Choice Importance, assesses the importance of making a career choice at this time. Jones and Lohmann (1998) reported reliability and validity information for the CDP based on three studies. The reliability of the CDP was reported as satisfactory with 3-week retest reliabilities for the scales falling in the .70s, ranging from .66 to .80, and alpha coefficients ranging from .59 to .84, with most scoring in the mid to high .70s.…”

“… This study assessed the effects of differentiation levels on the career development of college students. Participants were 231 college students who completed the Differentiation of Self Inventory (Skowron & Friedlander, ), My Vocational Situation (Holland, Daiger, & Power, ), the Career Decision Profile (CDP; Jones & Lohmann, ), and demographic questions. The results supported the hypotheses that higher levels of the various components of differentiation would predict higher levels of vocational identity and fewer difficulties with career decision making.…”

New tools for examining undergraduate students' STEM stereotypes: Implications for women and other underrepresented groups

“…Initial items on the CIS scale were informed by previous research, as well as occupational choice and motivation (Ellis and Herrman, 1983), career aspirations and ambitions in science (Ellis and Herrman, 1983;Schoon, 2001), and self-effi cacy in science (Lent Brown, and Hackett, 1994;McLean and Kalin, 1994), with specifi c scales examined including the Self Directed Search or SDS (Holland, 1994), Strong Interest Inventory or SII (Donnay and Borgen, 1996;Lattimore and Borgen, 1999;Fouad, 2002;Fouad and Mohler, 2004), and the Career Decision Profi le (Jones and Lohmann, 1998).…”