Simplifying the Measurement of College Students’ Career Planning: the Development of Career Student Planning Scale during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We created a new, 8-item scale called “Career Student Planning Scale (CSPS)” as a need for a valid and reliable measure for college students’ career planning during a pandemic. CSPS is conceptually similar to career decision making difficulty questionnaire (CDDQ) and career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) scale. CSPS leans toward questions regarding college students’ perceptions about career planning rather than intuitions about career decision making and asks about how participants think about their career plan tends to be correct rather than the more extreme idea about how their intuitions are right. We developed this scale to capture the latter construct. We included Coronavirus anxiety scale (CAS), CDDQ, general procrastination scale (GPS), and CDSE short form (CDSE-SF) as a covariate to ensure that CSPS had distinct effects on evaluations of their career path. Our finding indicated that the CSPS has acceptable psychometric properties and shows a significant correlation with those measures.