Validity of the Career Factors Inventory

Abstract

The present study examined the construct and concurrent validity of the Career Factors Inventory (CFI; Chartrand, Robbins, & Morrill, 1989). The CFI, along with the Career Choice Status Inventory (Savickas, 1993), the Vocational Identity Scale (VIS; Holland, Daiger, & Power, 1980), and the Career Development Inventory—Adult Form II (CDI-A; Super, Zelkowitz, & Thompson, 1975), were completed by 227 college students. Strong support for the CFI's construct validity was provided by a principal components analysis showing four components that paralleled the four scales in the inventory and correlations in the expected direction with age and year in school. Evidence in support of the CFI's concurrent validity was provided by correlations in the expected direction with career decidedness, vocational identity, and career development.

Psychological Separation and Dimensions of Career Indecision in Secondary School Students

“…The internal consistency (Cronbach's ␣) ranged from .73 to .86 . Other authors obtained similar results Lewis & Savickas, 1995). The test-retest reliability (Pearson's correlation coefficient) ranged from .79 to .84 for the various scales, with a mean of .80 ) over a 2-week interval period.…”

“…During the process of validation of IS, gender differences were not the object of evaluation because the original sample consisted solely of female subjects (Frost & Shows, 1993). However, similar gender differences have been reported in other investigations that evaluate indecisiveness Lewis & Savickas, 1995).…”

“…The test-retest reliability (Pearson's correlation coefficient) ranged from .79 to .84 for the various scales, with a mean of .80 ) over a 2-week interval period. The construct validity of the CFI was tested using both confirmatory factor analysis ) and principal components analysis (Lewis & Savickas, 1995) and the results confirm the four-factor model. At the concurrent validity level of CFI, it was verified that the scales correlated, in theoretically expected directions, with a set of measures which included vocational identity, selfesteem, and goal instability (for a review, see Chartrand & Nutter, 1996).…”

“…Although Lopez and Andrews (1987) did not speculate about gender differences, some studies have highlighted differences between men and women regarding the influence that systemic factors may play in the emergence and maintenance of career indecision (Lopez, 1989;Whinston, 1996). Simultaneously, research has ascertained the existence of gender differences in two of the variables used in this study, with women normally demonstrating lower levels of psychological separation regarding parental figures (Allen & Stoltenberg, 1995;Lapsley et al, 1989;Lopez, 1989;Lucas, 1997;Thomason & Winer, 1994), which seems to stress the importance of significant personal relationships and attachments in the process of female socialization (Gilligan, 1982;Josselsson, 1988) and higher levels of generalized indecision Lewis & Savickas, 1995). Thus, a differentiated analysis is justified for each gender.…”

A Short Form of the Career Futures Inventory

“…Respondents indicate their satisfaction on a Likert-type scale of 1 (Very dissatisfied and intend to change) to 5 (Well satisfied with choice). This scale has been used in other validation studies (e.g., Lewis & Savickas, 1995). The theoretical range of scores is 6 to 30.…”