The Italian Version of the Career Factors Inventory

Abstract

This study attempted to examine the validity of the Italian version of the Career Factors Inventory\ud (CFI), a psychometric tool widely used in the assessment of cognitive and personal–emotional\ud dimensions of career indecision, among a sample of 2,060 Italian students attending high school and\ud university. Recurring to both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, the original four-factor\ud structure was confirmed and returned, in line with the literature, satisfactory reliability indices;\ud moreover, CFI subscales showed intercorrelations consistent with previous studies, albeit lower\ud in some cases. Subsequently, convergent validity between the four CFI subscales and other scales\ud via zero-order correlation was tested, confirming previous evidence except for need for career\ud information. In conclusion, consistent with previous studies, the Italian version of the CFI showed\ud to be a valid and reliable instrument for the evaluation of dimensions of career indecision

Measuring difficulties in choosing an upper secondary school: Validating of the Parental Expectations, Confusion, Anxiety and Suitability Scale (PeCAS Scale)

“…The only significant gender difference was on the Generalized Indecisiveness Scale, t (313) = 2.75, p < .01, with women describing themselves as more indecisive. CFI was adapted into an Italian context ( Lo Presti, Pace, Lo Cascio, & Capuano, 2017 ) and tested on students attending high school and university: The Cronbach alpha coefficients ranged from .87 to .64. The third approach is represented by the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ; Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996 ) a 44 item questionnaire developed to test a theoretical taxonomy on the difficulties in career decision-making consisting of 3 categories and 10 subcategories: Lack of readiness (lack of motivation, general indecisiveness, and dysfunctional beliefs); lack of information (about the career decision-making process itself, the self, occupations or majors, and ways of obtaining additional information and help) and inconsistent information (unreliable information, internal conflicts, external conflicts).…”