Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-Belgium Form: Psychometric characteristics and construct validity

Abstract

A team of psychologists from 18 countries collaborated on the development and validation of a measure for career adaptability, which refers to an individual's resources for coping with current and anticipated tasks, transitions, and traumas in their occupational roles (Savickas, 1997). Considering the fact that labor markets around the world are increasingly turbulent as a result of global demographic, economic and psychological contract trends, it is clear that assessing and developing career adaptability is an important challenge for career scholars and counselors alike (Briscoe & Hall, 1999;Hall, 1996). In the first step of the project, an international form of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) was constructed.The CAAS-International Form 2.0 demonstrated excellent reliability and measurement equivalence across countries (Savickas & Porfeli, this issue). Its validity for use in each individual country, however, needs to be demonstrated by further analysis. The present article describes the development and pilot testing of the CAAS-Belgium in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. It reports on the scale's psychometric properties, including item statistics and internal consistency estimates. In addition, we compare the factor structure of the CAAS-Belgium to the multi-dimensional, hierarchical measurement model of the CAAS-International Form 2.0. Finally, we explore differences in career adaptability scores between Belgium and the other 12 countries that participated in the cross-cultural validation of the CAAS (i.e.

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