ScholarOne - Validating the Turkish Versions of the Career
Decision-Making Outcome Expectancies Scale and the Career
Decision-Making Exploratory Intentions Scale in Undergraduate Students
Abstract
This study evaluated the construct validity, concurrent validity,
convergent validity, reliability, and measurement invariance of the
Turkish version of the Career Decision-Making Outcome Expectancies Scale
(CDMOES) and the Career Decision-Making Exploratory Intentions Scale
(CDMEIS) among 297 Turkish undergraduate students (59.9% women and
40.1% men). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) demonstrated a
single-factor construct for each of the CDMOES and CDMEIS. The CDMOES
and CDMEIS were positively correlated with self-efficacy in career
decision-making. Multigroup CFAs demonstrated that the CDMOES and CDMEIS
had measurement invariance across genders. Furthermore, the CDMOES and
CDMEIS demonstrated high reliability (α = .92 and α = .91,
respectively). The results provide further evidence that the CDMOES and
CDMEIS Turkish versions are valid, reliable, and thus potentially useful
for practice and research.