The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI; Krumboltz, 1991, 1994) scores in terms of construct validity. Factor analysis was the primary vehicle for this exploration. Two independent samples of data (n1 = 251, n2 = 1,788) were analyzed using confirmatory first- order and exploratory second-order factor analyses. Results of the analyses suggest that reproducible clusters of beliefs can be measured using the CBI. However, these factors do not match well with the scale clusters used in CBI score reports.
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