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Career Decision-Making Profiles of Croatian High School Students: The structure of profiles and relation to other career-related constructs

The aim of the study was to examine career decision-making styles among high school students in Croatia. Career decision-making styles were described by multidimensional model of career decision-making profiles proposed by Gati, Landman, Davidovitch, Asulin-Peretz & Gadassi, (2010), and measured by the Career Decision- Making Profiles (CDMP) questionnaire. The participants were final grade high school students (age 18) attending grammar and vocational schools from Zagreb and its surroundings (N=529). The data were collected online as a part of the project Vocational Development in Adolescence: Setting the Adolescent Career Transition Model, supported by Croatian Science Foundation. The results show eight-factor structure of Career Decision-Making Profiles scale, what differs from the results of Gati i Levin (2012), who indicated 12 factors underlying CDMP items. Eight-factor structure explained 66.8% of items variance. The internal consistency (Crombach alphas) of the CDMP subscales were in the range from .71 to .90, with Median of .79. Further, we investigated the possibility to predict six adaptive career decision making styles (information gathering, locus of control, procrastination, speed of making the final decision, dependence on others, desire to please others) based on several personal and career- related variables. Vocational maturity and core self-evaluations were the best predictors of adaptive career decision-making styles, while parental and peers support in career development were generally not significant. Possible practical implementation of results and directions for future research were discussed.

career decision-making profiles, vocational maturity, core self-evaluations, career counselling and guidance

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