Validation of a Four-Factor Model of Career Indecision

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Steven D.; Hacker, Jason; Abrams, Matthew; Carr, Andrea; Rector, Christopher; Lamp, Kristen; Telander, Kyle; Siena, Anne
Titel	Validation of a Four-Factor Model of Career Indecision
Quelle	In: Journal of Career Assessment, 20 (2012) 1, S.3-21 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1069-0727
DOI	10.1177/1069072711417154
Schlagwörter	Career Choice; Models; Factor Structure; Validity; Meta Analysis; Undergraduate Students; Correlation; Factor Analysis; Neurosis; Anxiety; Readiness; Conflict; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Faktorenstruktur; Gültigkeit; Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; Korrelation; Faktorenanalyse; Neurose; Angst; Konflikt; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	Two studies were designed to explore whether a meta-analytically derived four-factor model of career indecision (Brown & Rector, 2008) could be replicated at the primary and secondary data levels. In the first study, an initial pool of 167 items was written based on 35 different instruments whose scores had loaded saliently on at least one factor in the Brown and Rector meta-analysis. These items were then administered to a sample of undergraduate college students and the resultant inter-item correlation matrix was subjected to principal axis factoring with oblique rotations. A four-factor solution was uncovered that resembled the four-factor meta-analytically derived solution but with a few theoretically and practically interesting exceptions. A second study used two existing correlation matrices derived from Gati and colleagues' cognitive and personality/emotional models of career indecision. Exploratory factor analyses of these matrices revealed that the current four-factor model could, in part, be uncovered from these matrices as well. The theoretical and counseling implications of the results are discussed and future research directions are articulated. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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