Development and initial psychometrics of the Career Problem Checklist

Abstract

The present study aimed to develop and validate a checklist questionnaire addressing career problems faced by college students. The research involved four steps: scale development, exploratory factor analysis, scale revision, and confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analyses. The career problem checklist comprised four components with 16 items: Self‐awareness (4 items), Occupational Information (4 items), Career Decision‐making (4 items), and Job‐seeking Skills (4 items). The reliability and the validity of the current scale were supported by the high levels of coherence of the subscales and their correlations with the related measures. The study's limitations and implications are also discussed.