The aim of this study was to validate the French version of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and to assess its measurement invariance across gender, age groups, countries, and student versus career counseling samples. We also examined the sensitivity of this instrument to discriminate a career counseling population from a general student sample. Third, we studied the relationship between career decision-making difficulties, career decision-making self-efficacy, and self-esteem in a sample of 1,748 French and French-speaking Swiss participants. A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the overall hierarchical structure of the CDDQ. Multigroup analysis indicated that the level of invariance across groups almost always reached configural, metric, and scalar invariance. Differences between countries were very small, whereas differences between the general population and career counseling subsamples were much larger. Both self-esteem and self-efficacy significantly predicted career decision-making difficulties. Moreover, as expected, self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between self-esteem and career decision-making difficulties.

这项研究的目的是验证职业决策困难问卷（CDDQ）的法语版本，并评估其在性别，年龄组，国家以及学生与职业咨询样本之间的测量不变性。我们还研究了该工具区分职业咨询人群与普通学生样本的敏感性。第三，我们在1748名法语和说法语的瑞士参与者中研究了职业决策困难，职业决策自我效能和自尊之间的关系。验证性因素分析证实了CDDQ的整体层次结构。多组分析表明，各组之间的不变性水平几乎总是达到配置，度量和标量不变性。国家之间的差异很小 而一般人群和职业咨询子样本之间的差异要大得多。自尊和自我效能感都显着预测了职业决策困难。而且，正如预期的那样，自我效能感部分地调节了自尊与职业决策困难之间的关系。