Refining Measurement of Career Indecision Types: A Validity Study

✍ Scribed by Kevin R. Kelly; Chad A. Pulver

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 251 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2003.tb00271.x

✦ Synopsis

The authors conducted this study to address some of the limitations in previous indecision typology research and to provide validity evidence for the indecision types that were derived. The participants were 566 first‐semester, undecided students enrolled in a career exploration course. Career indecision, personality, and ability measures were used to derive career indecision types through cluster analysis. Four distinct career indecision types were identified. Subsequently, the effect of indecision type on response to a career exploration course was examined. Level of career indecision, the criterion variable, was not differentially affected by indecision type. Implications of the findings for career counseling are discussed.