This article describes a revision of the Vocational Decision Scale called the Career Decision Profile (CDP). The CDP was administered to 221 undergraduates. The results support the reliability and validity of the Decidedness and Comfort scales and the four scales of the Reasons dimension: Self-Clarity, Knowledge About Occupations and Training, Decisiveness, and Career Choice Importance. Analyses indicated that: career decided students need career planning assistance; trait anxiety is more strongly associated with how students feel about their career decision status than how decided they are; the vocational decision status model provides a clearer picture of career indecision than current unitary approaches; and the CDP shows promise for differentiating among groups of students for treatment. I acknowledge the valuable feedback from two anonymous reviewers and the Editor as well as Charles Proctor's assistance with statistical analyses.

As a continuation of recent efforts to differentiate subtypes among vocationally undecided students, a model of vocational decision status was developed, and an instrument, the Vocational Decision Scale (YDS), was constructed to assess its three dimensions of decidedness, comfort with level of decidedness, and reasons for being undecided. The YDS and measures of career salience, anomy, identity, and choice stage were administered to 224 college students in an introductory psychology course to investigate the utility of the model and the reliability and validity of the YDS. The results supported the reliability and construct validity of the decidedness and comfort scales. A factor analysis of the reasons dimension yielded three factors: self-uncertainty, choice/ work salience, and transitional self. To investigate the diagnostic capability of the YDS, scales were constructed for the three factors, and the YDS was administered in a pretest-posttest to 81 college students enrolled in a vocational exploration course. Hypothesized pretest-posttest differences among the scales were confirmed by the data. The results demonstrated the utility of the model, supported the reliability and validity of the YDS, and illustrated the value of viewing vocationally undecided students as multiple subtypes.

The Career Decision Profile (CDP) is useful in career counseling. The CDP was developed from a three-dimensional model of career decision status (Decidedness, Comfort, and Reasons), and data on the validity and reliability for its six scales are provided. The CDP can be used by counselors to (a) explore clients' career indecision, (b) screen for readiness, (c) determine the appropriate level of career services needed, and (d) evaluate counseling outcomes. We conclude with a description of the results from a survey of counselors who have used the CDP in career counseling.

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A career interest inventory, the Chinese Career Key (CCK) was adapted from the Career Key (Jones, 1987(Jones, , 1997, which is based on Holland's theory of vocational choice. The goal was to create a professional-quality career interest inventory for use in China and countries having significant populations of Chinese speaking citizens. This report describes the development of the CCK and its first study at a public high school (n=101) and a public university (n=80) in Hong Kong. In general, the research findings support its validity, reliability and user satisfaction among high school and university students in Hong Kong. Cultural differences were explained.Re´sume´. Construction et validation empirique du Chinese Career Key chez des e´tudiants de lyce´e et de college a`Hong Kong. Un inventaire d'inte´reˆts professionnels, le Chinese Career Key (CCK), a e´teá dapte´du Career Key (Jones, 1987(Jones, , 1997, fonde´sur la the´orie du choix vocationnel de Holland. Le but e´tait de cre´er un inventaire d'inte´reˆts professionnels a`destination de la Chine et de pays dont la population comporte un nombre significatif de citoyens de langue chinoise. Ce rapport de´crit la construction et les re´sultats de la premie`re e´tude relative au CCK dans un lyce´e public (n=101) et dans une universite´publique (n=80) de Hong Kong. En ge´ne´ral, la recherche atteste de la validiteé t de la fide´lite´du CCK, ainsi que de la satisfaction des re´pondants du lyce´e public et de l'universited e Hong Kong. On explique les diffe´rences culturelles. Zusammenfassung. Die Entwicklung und Erprobung des Chinesischen Berufsschlu¨ssels bei Gymnasiasten und Studenten in Hongkong. Ein Berufsinteressenfragebogen, der Chinesische Berufsschlu¨ssel (Chinese Career Key -CCK) wurde aus dem Berufsschlu¨ssel (Career Key, Jones, 1987, 1997) angepasst, der auf Hollands Berufswahltheorie basiert. Ziel war die Entwicklung eines Berufsinteressenfragebogens von professioneller Qualita¨t fü r die Verwendung in China und in La¨ndern mit einem signifikanten Anteil chinesisch sprechender Bevo¨lkerung. Dieser Bericht beschreibt die Entwicklung des CCK und die Ergebnisse einer ersten Erprobung mit Gymnasiasten (n=101) und Studenten (n=80) in Hongkong. Grundsa¨tzlich besta¨tigen die Ergebnisse die Validita¨t, Reliabilita¨t und die Zufriedenheit der Nutzer des CCK in Gymnasium und Hochschule in Hongkong. Kulturelle Unterschiede werden erla¨utert. Resumen. Desarrollo y Estudio Piloto del ''Career Key'' Chino con Alumnos de Educacio´n Secundaria y de Universidad en Hong Kong. Un inventario de intereses profesionales, el Chinese Career Key -CCK (Clave de las Carreras chino) fue adaptado del Career Key (Jones , 1987, 1997), que se basa en la teorı´a de la eleccio´n vocacional de Holland. El objetivo era crear un inventario de intereses profesionales de calidad para ser utilizado en China y en paı´ses con una proporcio´n alta de ciudadanos que hablan chino. Este artı´culo describe el proceso de disen˜o del CCK y los resultados del estudio piloto en un instituto (colegio ...