Cross-Cultural Equivalence of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form: An Australian and South African Comparison

By Peter A. Creed, W. Patton, M. Watson. 2002

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The present study examined the reliability, content and construct validity, and cultural equivalence of the short form of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (CDMSE-SF). In response to calls to conduct studies using the measure with high school-age samples, data were gathered from two samples of high school students, one from Australia and one from South Africa. The findings were in accord with earlier studies in that they failed to find five factors. Three factors were found with each sample; however, these factors were different in each sample and different from those reported in samples of U.S. college students, suggesting cross-cultural differences in the construct. The authors suggest that a more parsimonious version of the CDMSE-SF is possible, the CDMSE-SF does not adequately reflect its theoretical origins, and cultural equivalence cannot be assumed.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Causal Relationship Between Career Indecision and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy (2006, unknown): “Internal reliability coefficients for the total score are typically reported to be high in both college (e.g., Betz et al., 1996; α = .94) and high school students (e.g., Creed et al., 2002; α = .93).”
• The Relationship Between Career Variables and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations for Australian High School Adolescents (2007, unknown): “a unidimensional test and has been found to be highly reliable and to have satisfactory validity (Betz et al., 1996; Creed, Patton, & Watson, 2002; Gloria & Hird, 1999; Watson, Brand, Stead, & Ellis, 2001).”
• What are the Differences between Happiness and Self-Esteem (2006, background): “Finally, the association between optimism and task initiation also holds for prominent long-term goals, such as career-related goals (Creed et al., 2002; Patton et al., 2004).”
• The Big Five Career Theories (2008, methodology): “... only minimal modification, mainly to establish language equivalence through using a back-translation strategy to translate the items into the language of the target culture (e.g., Goh & Yu, 2001), (b) conduct psychometric evaluation of the target measures to decide if the structure and propertie”