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The Structure of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire Across 13 Countries

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JOURNAL OF CAREER ASSESSMENT
卷 31, 期 1, 页码 129-148

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/10690727221099226

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career assessment; career decision-making; career decision-making difficulties; career indecision; confirmatory factor analysis

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Assessing the causes of career indecision is an important step in career counseling. This study examined the cross-cultural generalizability of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and confirmed its structure across different countries and languages.
Assessing the causes of career indecision is among the first steps in career counseling. Gati et al. (1996) proposed a multidimensional taxonomy of career indecision and developed the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ), consisting of 10 scales that cohere into three higher-order clusters and a total score. However, studies investigating the CDDQ reported cross-cultural variations in its factor structure. To examine the cross-cultural generalizability of the CDDQ, we compared four alternative factor models using data from 39 diverse samples from 13 countries with nine language versions (N = 19,562). Using weighted least squares mean- and variance-adjusted estimation, a robust estimator for nonnormal data, comparison of fit indices supported the original CDDQ structure across countries and languages. These findings support the cross-cultural generalizability of the structure of the CDDQ and the use of 10 scale scores, three cluster scores, and a total score, consistent with the taxonomy underlying the CDDQ.

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