VALIDITY OF THE CAREER FACTORS INVENTORY

The present study examined the construct and concurrent validity of th e Career Factors Inventory (CFI; Chartrand, Robbins, and Morrill, 1989 ). The CFI, along with the Career Choice Status Inventory (Savickas, 1 993), the Vocational Identity Scale (VIS; Holland, Daiger, and Power, 1980), and the Career Development Inventory-Adult Form II (CDI-A; Supe r, Zelkowitz, and Thompson, 1975), were completed by 227 college stude nts. Strong support for the CFI's construct validity was provided by a principal components analysis showing four components that paralleled the four scales in the inventory and correlations in the expected dir ection with age and year in school. Evidence in support of the CFI's c oncurrent validity was provided by correlations in the expected direct ion with career decidedness, vocational identity, and career developme nt.