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Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire
OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed at validating the structure of Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ). METHODS: Five hundred and eleven undergraduate students took part in this research; from these participants, 63 males and 200 females took part in the first study, and 63 males...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22952549 |
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author | Vahedi, Shahrum Farrokhi, Farahman Mahdavi, Ali Moradi, Samad |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed at validating the structure of Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ). METHODS: Five hundred and eleven undergraduate students took part in this research; from these participants, 63 males and 200 females took part in the first study, and 63 males and 185 females completed the survey for the second study. RESULTS: The results of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) indicated strong support for the three-factor structure, consisting of lack of information about the self, inconsistent information, lack of information and lack of readiness factors. A confirmatory factor analysis was run with the second sample using structural equation modeling. As expected, the three-factor solution provided a better fit to the data than the alternative models. CONCLUSION: CDDQ was recommended to be used for college students in this study due to the fact that this instrument measures all three aspects of the model. Future research is needed to learn whether this model would fit other different samples. |
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spelling | pubmed-34286412012-09-05 Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire Vahedi, Shahrum Farrokhi, Farahman Mahdavi, Ali Moradi, Samad Iran J Psychiatry Original Article OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed at validating the structure of Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ). METHODS: Five hundred and eleven undergraduate students took part in this research; from these participants, 63 males and 200 females took part in the first study, and 63 males and 185 females completed the survey for the second study. RESULTS: The results of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) indicated strong support for the three-factor structure, consisting of lack of information about the self, inconsistent information, lack of information and lack of readiness factors. A confirmatory factor analysis was run with the second sample using structural equation modeling. As expected, the three-factor solution provided a better fit to the data than the alternative models. CONCLUSION: CDDQ was recommended to be used for college students in this study due to the fact that this instrument measures all three aspects of the model. Future research is needed to learn whether this model would fit other different samples. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3428641/ /pubmed/22952549 Text en © 2012 Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Vahedi, Shahrum Farrokhi, Farahman Mahdavi, Ali Moradi, Samad Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire |
title | Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire |
title_full | Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire |
title_fullStr | Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire |
title_short | Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire |
title_sort | exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the career decision-making difficulties questionnaire |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22952549 |
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