Testing the Validity of the Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire in Turkish Culture

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Öztemel K.

JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT, cilt.40, sa.5, ss.390-407, 2013 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 40 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1177/0894845312468060
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.390-407
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: career decision making, career decision-making difficulties, emotional and personality career decision-making difficulties, career problems, cross-cultural, INDECISION, PREDICTORS, CONSTRUCT, THINKING, SCALE
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The goal of this study was to examine the emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties of high school students in Turkish culture, using the model proposed by Saka and Gati. A sample of 523 high school students filled out the Turkish version of the Emotional and Personality-Related Aspects of Career Decision-Making Difficulties (EPCD) questionnaire. Cluster and confirmatory factor analyses supported the ternary classification system of the emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties model and questionnaire, thus providing evidence for the cross-cultural validity of the proposed model. Furthermore, the results demonstrated significant associations between making a decision and the emotional and personality career difficulties: students who were decided reported lower emotional and personality-related career difficulties than did undecided students. Generally, there were no differences in EPCD scores between boys and girls, and no effect of type of school and grade was observed.