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Exploration of Latent Profiles of the Career Flexibility Inventory Among Korean College Students
Author(s) -
Kim Boyoung,
Lee Sinhye,
Lee Sang Min
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/joec.12137
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , psychology , career counseling , vocational education , latent class model , life satisfaction , identity (music) , latent variable , social psychology , applied psychology , statistics , pedagogy , mathematics , physics , acoustics
The purposes of the present study were to identify latent profiles using dimensions of the Career Flexibility Inventory and to examine the mean differences of the latent profiles and related variables. Career flexibility was identified to have 5 latent profiles: passive wavering, mediocre, rigid thinking, moderately flexible, and productively flexible. The productively flexible profile reported the highest scores and the passive wavering profile reported the lowest scores of life satisfaction and self‐determination. Each profile showed specific trend of mean differences with career indecision, intolerance of uncertainty, life satisfaction, self‐determination, and the 2 dimensions of the Vocational Identity Status Assessment.