• RUQAIYA JAVED
• MAHMOOD SUBUKTAGEEN KHAN

Several factors are responsible to play an important role in students’ career decision making abilities which is believed to be one of the most significant and inevitable tasks of life. Career decision-making self-efficacy has become one of the widely investigated construct since researchers focused on an individuals’ self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations regarding career making choices. The present study focuses on the development and standardization of Career Decision Making self-efficacy Scale specifically designed for adolescent students in their late adolescence-hood. Adolescent students (N=481) studying in 11th and 12th class of different schools of Aligarh district served as participants. The preliminary scale consisted of 27 items and after proportion agreement method, 26 items were retained for item analysis. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was carried out and confirmed 17 items clustered into four factors namely (1) Absolute belief in career decision (2) problem solving conviction (3) career decision confidence (4) career decision prophecy. The reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be high (α= 0.85). Further the EFA explained 50.98% total variance confirming the factorial validity check of the scale.

Career decision making, self-efficacy, career decision confidence, career decision prophecy.

"DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF CAREER DECISION MAKING SELF-EFFICACY SCALE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.569-578, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812676.pdf

"DEVELOPMENT AND STANDARDIZATION OF CAREER DECISION MAKING SELF-EFFICACY SCALE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp569-578, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812676.pdf