title: [Vocational choice and career planning. Spanish adaptation of Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS-R)].
abstract: The Self-Directed Search is a career-planning guide that works similarly to a vocational and professional interests inventory. A preliminary study allows detection of 68 ítems that need to be rectified, since they do not meet psychometric and semantic criteria. The current study demonstrates reliability and validity of the new adaptation. It is applied to a sample of 1460 subjects from different educational levels. As for reliability, the discrimination index of the items and internal consistency of the scales have improved. Additionally, procedures performed to verify validity (content, construct and concurrent) demonstrate that the instrument has acceptable validity. On balance, we can conclude that the instrument has sufficient scientific and technical credibility for application to the Spanish population.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Almería, Spain. jvicente@ual.es
authors.forename: José Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Martínez Vicente
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Valls Fernández
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires