PERSONALITY-CORRELATES OF JONES 3-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CAREER INDECISION

Jones recently developed the Career Decision Profile (CDP; 1989). The CDP assesses career indecision, how comfortable individuals are with t heir career-decision status, and reasons for career indecision. Accord ing to Jones' vocational decision-status model, the CDP can be used to categorize individuals into four subtypes: decided-comfortable, decid ed-uncomfortable, undecided-comfortable, and undecided-uncomfortable. This study investigated the personality correlates of the CDP and the utility of Jones' scale for identifying the career subtypes. The CDP s ubscales correlated with several personality variables in the expected directions, and results indicated some support using the CDP to categ orize individuals into the four decidedness-comfort subtypes.