TY - JOUR
T1 - Factorial invariance of career indecision dimensions across junior high and high school males and females
AU - Schulenberg, John E.
AU - Shimizu, Kazuaki
AU - Vondracek, Fred W.
AU - Hostetler, Michelle
N1 - Funding Information:
The first two authors shared equal responsibility in the preparation of this manuscript. This study was supported in part by grants from the Center for the Study of Child and Adolescent Development, The Pennsylvania State University, to Fred W. Vondracek, and from the Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue University, to John E. Schulenberg. The authors wish to thank John R. Nesselroade, David L. Blustein, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on a previous draft of this paper, and also the students and school personnel who made this study possible. Kazuaki Shimizu is an Associate Professor of Vocational Guidance at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, and this study was conducted while he was a Visiting Professor in the College of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University. Reprint requests and comments may be addressed to John E. Schulenberg, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
PY - 1988/8
Y1 - 1988/8
N2 - Confirmatory factor analytic strategies were utilized to test for factorial invariance of factors derived from the Career Decision Scale (CDS; Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico, & Koschier, 1976) across groups of adolescents. A four-factor model derived from a previous exploratory factor analysis of the present total sample (N = 698) was tested (via LISREL) on four grade level (junior high versus high school) by gender subgroups. It was found that a model depicting equivalent factor loadings and factor variances and covariances across all four groups provided the most acceptable fit to the data, indicating that factorial invariance was obtained across the four groups. In addition, it was found that these results held for two different loading patterns (one reflecting the complexity of the CDS items, and one reflecting a simple structure). Results are discussed in terms of both the continuities of career indecision dimensions across gender and grade levels during adolescence, as well as the equivalent measurement properties of the CDS.
AB - Confirmatory factor analytic strategies were utilized to test for factorial invariance of factors derived from the Career Decision Scale (CDS; Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico, & Koschier, 1976) across groups of adolescents. A four-factor model derived from a previous exploratory factor analysis of the present total sample (N = 698) was tested (via LISREL) on four grade level (junior high versus high school) by gender subgroups. It was found that a model depicting equivalent factor loadings and factor variances and covariances across all four groups provided the most acceptable fit to the data, indicating that factorial invariance was obtained across the four groups. In addition, it was found that these results held for two different loading patterns (one reflecting the complexity of the CDS items, and one reflecting a simple structure). Results are discussed in terms of both the continuities of career indecision dimensions across gender and grade levels during adolescence, as well as the equivalent measurement properties of the CDS.
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U2 - 10.1016/0001-8791(88)90034-6
DO - 10.1016/0001-8791(88)90034-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249027320
SN - 0001-8791
VL - 33
SP - 63
EP - 81
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
IS - 1
ER -