The Revision And Application Of Emotional And Personality Aspects Of Career Decision-making Difficulties Scale Of College Students

In2008,Saka,Gati and Kelly developed the Emotional and Personality Aspects ofCareer Decision-making Difficulties Scale (EPCD) for analyzing the emotional andpersonality aspects of career-decision-making difficulties.Many studies providedevidence for the cross-cultural validity of the Scale,This scale is a measurement toolswith good reliability and validity and was used widely by many empiricalresearches.There is not yet relevant measurement tools in China.But in order tocomprehend the status and characteristics of the students’ emotional and personalityaspects of career-decision-making difficulties, we need to revise the scale, test theapplicability of the scale of college students in China.So this article will revise thescale based on research from abroad and combined with China’s actual situation.Study provided evidence for the cross-cultural validity of the proposed scale, using anChinese college student sample. This article investigate current situation andcharacteristics of the emotional and personality-related aspects ofcareer-decision-making difficulties of Chinese college students by the revisedscale.This document is intended to enrich the study of career decision-makingdifficulties and provide a diagnostic tool for individuals that need to make careerdecisions and career counselors.So that students can avoid consciously and cope theemotional and personality problems and obstacles,It becomes easier for collegestudents in China to make rational career decision.First College emotional and personality aspects of career-decision-makingdifficulties scale in English is translated into Chinese version by a doctor inpsychology, and then re-translated Chinese version of the scale to English version ofthe scale by a teacher in English Department.The authors compare the originalEnglish version and the re-translated English versionin, Finally There is notdifferent meanings between these two versions. That is to say the scale in Chineseversion is acceptable.Finally, several doctors discussed and corrected the issue on theexpression in Chinese version Scale.A sample of Chinese college students(N=300)from a university in Jilin Province are selected by Stratified random sampling and areused for the preliminary test.The purpose of the preliminary test is for the itemanalysis. Then, A sample of Chinese college students(N=400) from a university inJilin Province are selected by Stratified random sampling and are used for the formaltest.The purpose of the formal test is for validating the reliability andvalidity.Finally,using the revised scale,The author studies the status and characteristicsof the students’ emotional and personality aspects of career-decision-makingdifficulties.Conclusions are as follows: 1、This revised scale is a measurement tools with good reliability and validityand is applicable in Chinese college students.Cronbach’sａand Split-half reliabilitycoefficients of total scale and subscales are all above0.7.Retest reliability coefficientsof total scale and subscales are all above0.8.the11categories and three cluster model(11–3–1) adequately fit the data,The observed value of X2/df was1.30, Theobserved value of RMSEA was0.04, The other fit indices (NFI=0.93，GFI=0.95，CFI=0.98) also indicated a very good fit with the hypothesized model. To conclude,the CFA supported the adequacy of the hypothesized theoretical model of11difficultycategories grouped into three major clusters.The higher career decision-making statusthe lower emotional and personality aspects of career-decision-makingdifficulties,That is to say Criterion validity of revised Scale is reasonable.2、The status and characteristics of the students’ emotional and personalityaspects of career-decision-making difficulties are as follows:(1) Chinese college students have moderate emotional and personality aspectsof career-decision-making difficulties (3.03±0.55).(2)There is a significant difference between male college students and femalecollege students（p<0.01）.Female college students are higher than male collegestudents in emotional and personality aspects of career-decision-making difficulties.(3)There is a significant difference between humanities and social collegestudents and science college students（p<0.01）.humanities and social college studentsare higher than science college students in Anxiety.(4)There is no significant difference among the four grades.