Construct validation study career decision making self-efficacy scale - Indonesian version

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to conduct a construct validity test (convergent evidence) on the Indonesian version of the Career Decision Making Self-Efficacy Scale. CDSES-Indonesian version has 30 statement items that aim to measure the level of individual confidence in career decisions related to activities which are included in seven dimensions: occupational information, goal selection, self-appraisal, school achievement, problem solving, social support, and planning. Although it has passed the content validity test, CDSES-Indonesian version has not obtained psychometric properties in the form of construct validity (convergent evidence). To conduct a construct validation study, researchers also used the NEO-PI instrument developed by Costa & McCrae in 1992 integrated into the DSES-Indonesia version of the instrument. This study's sample consisted of 211 respondents, including 123 women and 88 men between the ages of 17 and 35. This samples were  conducted on 211 university students who live in Jakarta, Indonesia. Google Form was used to distribute questionnaires of the two measuring instruments to the intended participants in this study. The results showed that CDSES can be predicted by all personality traits. Four personality traits (conscientiousness, openness, extraversion, and agreeableness) were positively correlated with CDSES, whereas the type of personality trait neuroticism is negatively correlated.