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For comparison of one-, three-, and four-factor structures of the Indecision scale of the Career Decision Scale, results of confirmatory factor analysis (N = 686) indicated the best fit for the three-factor structure. Multiple regression analysis results indicated incremental validity of the five-factor model for predicting dimensions of career indecision. (Contains 3 tables.)

Social cognitive theory includes a model for understanding adjustment with specific domains of the college experience. We examined the utility of the constructs of this model for predicting academic adjustment [...]

We examined career indecision and college adjustment in a sample of first-year students (N = 180). Indecision scores and five-factor measures were combined to identify three clusters of students who varied in degree of indecision. One indecision cluster was characterized by high neuroticism, low extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness, in addition to poor college adjustment and self-efficacy for learning The second indecision cluster was average in personality profile, college adjustment, and self-efficacy: however it experienced greater positive choice conflict as a source of career indecision. The third cluster was career-decided, well-adjusted, with high conscientiousness and low openness to experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]