Construction and Validation of the Emotional and Personality related Career Indecisiveness Scale (EPSCI)

Abstract

The use of appropriate instruments for data collection is a crucial aspect of any research as inappropriate instruments run the risk of providing invalid and uninterpretable data Hence utmost care needs to be taken for ensuring the usage of most apt instruments and wherever necessary such instruments should be carefully crafted This paper reports the development of one such instrument Emotional and Personality Related Sources of Career Indecisiveness Scale designed to unearth the emotional and personality related factors responsible for career indecisiveness among adolescents living in institutional care It entails an elaborate discussion on all its aspects including its need purpose and procedure of construction The EPSCI scale is based on the theoretical framework presented by Saka et al 2008 which bifurcates the emotional and personality related factors in three categories ie pessimistic views anxiety and selfconcept and identity which are further subdivided in 11 categories