"Dimensions of career indecision": Correction to Vondracek, Hostetler, Schulenberg, and Shimizu.

Reports an error in "Dimensions of career indecision" by Fred W. Vondracek, Michelle Hostetler, John E. Schulenberg and Kazuaki Shimizu (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1990[Jan], Vol 37[1], 98-106). Editorial error resulted in several misstatements. On page 98, second column, in the 11th line of the second paragraph, the word students ought to read studies; on page 101, in the 9th line, the word Behaviors ought to read Barriers. On page 102, in line 5 of the first paragraph, the reference ought to be to the top left panel of Figure 2. The second paragraph ought to begin with the reference to the top right panel of Figure 2. Also on page 102, the sentence that begins on line 5 of the first paragraph was intended to read, as follows: Two of the groups of girls changed significantly in the expected direction: Group 2 (decided-undecided) significantly increased and Group 3 (undecided-decided) significantly decreased over time. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1990-13462-001.) Recent studies have clarified the factor structure of the Career Decision Scale (CDS), thereby permitting the construction of 4 linearly independent scales to measure dimensions of career indecision. The CDS was administered to 465 junior and senior high school students. The study examined whether the CDS total score and the 4 subscales were related to the students' career decision status, grade level, and gender. Data were collected twice, 6 months apart, to study whether changes in decision status were accompanied by changes in the CDS total score and the 4 subscales and whether these changes differed according to gender or grade level. In addition, a subsample was followed for 3 years to examine long-term change. The results demonstrated the utility of using factor-based subscales to create a typology of career indecision. Many significant differences on the various indecision scales were found to be due to gender and to career decision status but not to grade level. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)