Measuring specialty indecision among career-decided students |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Addiction and Dual Diagnosis Unit, Psychiatry Department, University Hospital Vall Hebron – ASPB, CIBERSAM, Passieg Vall d’Hebron, 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, Spain;2. Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain;1. Department of obstetrics and gynaecology, hôpital Nord, Assistance publique–Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP–HM), chemin des Bourrely, 13015 Marseille, France;2. Department of public health, hôpital de la Timone, Assistance publique–Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP–HM), 13015 Marseille, France;3. Aix-Marseille université (AMU), Marseille, France;4. CNRS, IRD, Avignon université, IMBE UMR 7263, 13397 Marseille, France;1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hamawaki Orthopaedic Hospital, 4-6-6 Otemachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, 730-0051, Japan;2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan;1. Department of Psychology, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;2. UBC Institute of Mental Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Increasing numbers of career-decided students in professional and graduate schools have difficulty choosing a specialty. To begin to examine this problem, a measure of specialty indecision was devised by changing the Career Decision Scale items to deal with specialty indecision rather than career indecision. The scale was then administered to 567 medical students along with measures of vocational development and exploratory behavior. Initial evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Specialty Indecision Scale indicate that it is internally consistent, relates more to specialty choice than to career choice, and inversely relates to both vocational development and exploratory behavior. A factor analysis of the scale items extracted four factors that reflect cognitive, conative, criterion, and implementation restraints on the decision-making process. The Specialty Indecision Scale seems to be useful for diagnostic and research purposes in the study and treatment of specialty indecision. |
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