Özet:

The aim of the current study is to adapt the Career Decision Scale developed by Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico and Koschier (1976) and then revised by Osipow (1987). In accordance with that, items of the scale were translated into Turkish and then were back translated into English. Student and expert opinions were gathered regarding the items. The data were collected from two different groups of undergraduate students (ages 17-28) with the final version of the scale. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with the first group of participants (N = 336; 112 male, 224 female) suggested covariances between error terms of some items were drawn. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was repeated with the second data set (N = 365: 208 male, 157 female) and goodness of fit indices were deemed satisfactory hence two-factor model was verified. In order to test the convergent validity of the scale, the relationship between career indecision subscale, certainty subscale (Osipow et al., 1976) and Personal Indecisiveness Scale (Bacanlı, 2005) were examined and as expected a significant and positive correlation (r = .61, p < .01) and a significant negative correlation (r = -.34, p <.05) were found, respectively. The internal consistency coefficients were sufficient for each subscale (ranging from .84 to .86). In addition, the test-retest reliability coefficients (.84 for career indecision subscale, .77 for certainty subscale) were consistent with the original study. According to the findings of the study, it is possible to say that the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the CDS were satisfactory.

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