Purpose
The Career Factors Inventory (CFI) is a 21-item scale designed to measure factors that contribute to career indecision.
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The Career Factors Inventory (CFI) is a 21-item scale designed to measure factors that contribute to career indecision.
21
5-10 minutes
Time to administer is approximate; completion is not time-limited
Adolescent
13 - 17
yearsAdult
18 - 64
yearsEunjeong Ko, Doctoral Student in Vocational Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison under the direction of Lindsay Clark, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
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College Students: (calculated from Chartrand et al., 1990; n = 331; mean age = 19.90 (4.0) years; 71% female)
College Students: (calculated from Lewis & Savickas, 1995; n = 214; mean age = 21.2 (range 17-43); 63% female)
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College Students: (calculated from Chartrand et al., 1990)
College Students: (calculated from Lewis & Savickas, 1995)
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College Students: (Lewis & Savickas, 1995)
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College Students: (Chartrand et al., 1990)
Note: CA = CFI Career Choice Anxiety; GI = CFI Generalized Indecisiveness; CI = CFI Need for Career Information; SK = CFI Need for Self-Knowledge |
College Students: (Chartrand et al., 1990)
College Students: (Lewis & Savickas, 1995)
Italian Students: (Lo Presti et al., 2017; n = 10602,060; mean age = 20.781 (3.173.42) years; 71.1% women and 28.9% men; 44.3% high school students and 55.7% university students; Italian speakers)
Note: CA = CFI Career Choice Anxiety; GI = CFI Generalized Indecisiveness; CI = CFI Need for Career Information; SK = CFI Need for Self-Knowledge |
Concurrent validity: College Students: (Lewis & Savickas, 1995)
Note: CCSI = Career Choice Status Inventory; VIS = Vocational Identity Scale; CA = CFI Career Choice Anxiety; GI = CFI Generalized Indecisiveness; CI = CFI Need for Career Information; SK = CFI Need for Self-Knowledge, CDI-A = Career Development Inventory – Adult Form II; CRY = CDI-A Crystallization; SPEC = CDI-A Specification; IMPL = CDI-A Implementation; STAB = CDI-A Stabilization |
Convergent validity: College Students: (Chartrand et al., 1990)
Italian Students: (Lo Presti et al., 2017)
Note: CA = CFI Career Choice Anxiety; GI = CFI Generalized Indecisiveness; CI = CFI Need for Career Information; SK = CFI Need for Self-Knowledge; STAI-T = Trait Anxiety subscale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; GIS = Goal Instability Scale; VIS = Vocational Identity scale; SE = Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale; Indecisiveness is a scale of 22 item with higher scores indicating high decision-making skills and low indecisiveness; Lack of Information about occupations and Lack of information about self are subscales of the Italian adaptation of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire
Discriminant validity: Undergraduate Students: (Dickinson, 2004; n = 350; mean age = 22.7 (6.0))
Note: BIDR = Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding; CA = CFI Career Choice Anxiety; GI = CFI Generalized Indecisiveness; CI = CFI Need for Career Information; SK = CFI Need for Self-Knowledge |
Lewis and Savickas (1995) concluded that the Generalized Indecisiveness items lack face validity as indicators of indecisiveness. They suggested the items are more about measuring decision-making difficulty rather than decision-making inability.
Chartrand, J. M., Robbins, S. B., Morrill, W. H., & Boggs, K. (1990). Development and validation of the Career Factors Inventory. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 37(4), 491-501. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.37.4.491 |
Dickinson, J., & Tokar, D. M. (2004). Structural and discriminant validity of the career factors inventory. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65(2), 239–254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2003.07.002 |
Lewis, D. M., & Savickas, M. L. (1995). Validity of the Career Factors Inventory. Journal of Career Assessment, 3(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/106907279500300104 |
Lo Presti, A., Pace, F., Cascio, V. L., & Capuano, M. (2017). The Italian Version of the Career Factors Inventory. Journal of Career Assessment, 25(2), 326-337. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072714565857 |
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