The Cross‐Cultural Applicability of the Career Decision‐Making System

Abstract

This article presents construct and concurrent validity data for the Career DecisionMaking System for participants from three different countries who speak three different languages. The interest profiles of people performing similar jobs in two countries show substantial comparability.

Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development, 1991

“…Ahadi (1991) found support for interpreting six career factors from the Adult Personality Inventory, a modern version of the 16 PF, as representing the Holland types. Harrington (1991) found support for the hexagonal arrangement of scores from the Career Decision Making System when the inventory was presented in three languages and three countries.…”

Race and the development of career interest in accounting

“…This approach to measuring self-efficacy is consistent with prior research in accounting (Christensen, Fogarty, & Wallace, 2002). Outcome expectations were assessed using work values from the Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making System (CDMS), which has been validated in the career counseling literature (Harrington, 1991;Harrington & O'Shea, 1993). Reliability was tested on questions 1-14 regarding work values and separately on questions 15-28 measuring students' perceptions of accounting.…”

Cross-Cultural Career Counselling

“…Chinese students value collectivism, emotional restraint, selfcontrol and social conformity and, inevitably, place more emphasis onvalues concerned with safety and security (Feather, 1986). Inaddition, a specific job's prestige may differ across cultures (Harrington, 1991).…”

“…• Are theassumptions oftheconstructs onwhich aninterest inventory is developed valid across cultures? (Harrington, 1991) Itisimportant to have a general understanding ofthecultural values of clients and to know how those values affect vocational test-taking and decisionmaking (Fouad, 1993). Values systems will bedifferent for different cultural groups.…”

“…Inshort, theappropriateness of materials and methodologies must be examined when they areused with individuals from cultures different from those for whom they were originally designed (Harrington, 1991).…”