Career adapt-abilities scale — Icelandic form: Psychometric properties and construct validity

A culture-sensitive approach in the development of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in Iceland: Theoretical and operational considerations

“…The results support the contention that the four dimensions represent a universal aspect of the construct of career adaptability. Data from the Icelandic sample showed adequate yet the poorest fit to the four-dimensional configural structure along with the Netherlands and Korea (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012;Vilhjálmsdóttir et al, 2012). This relatively poorer fit in Iceland needs further examination as suggested by Vilhjálmsdóttir et al, (2012).…”

“…Data from the Icelandic sample showed adequate yet the poorest fit to the four-dimensional configural structure along with the Netherlands and Korea (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012;Vilhjálmsdóttir et al, 2012). This relatively poorer fit in Iceland needs further examination as suggested by Vilhjálmsdóttir et al, (2012). First, methodological issues need to be attended to such as sampling, translation and adaptation of the measure and the choice of methods used in confirmatory factor analysis.…”

“…First, methodological issues need to be attended to such as sampling, translation and adaptation of the measure and the choice of methods used in confirmatory factor analysis. The fit of the international model in Iceland was tested on two combined samples jointly (Vilhjálmsdóttir et al, 2012). The two samples differed mainly in age and normative career transitions.…”

“…The emic-etic distinction is not a polarized alternative but provides different perspectives (Norsworthy, Heppner, AEgisdóttir, Gerstein, & Pedersen, 2009) that need to be taken into account in cross-cultural studies. In this study, we took steps toward a more emic method than was done in the previous study on career adaptability in Iceland (Vilhjálmsdóttir et al, 2012).…”

“…For example, the N-way method to define the construct and an international collaboration in item generation are emic, but the use of only U.S. samples at the first stage of the item selection process, mono-linguistic (English) generation of items (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012) is more indicative of etic approaches in assessment (Berry, Poortinga, Segall, & Dasen, 2002). These approaches coupled with the problems with the fit of the international model in Iceland (Vilhjálmsdóttir, et al, 2012) suggest that more culturally sensitive (emic) procedures than have been applied in this area before are needed to develop a measure and model of career adaptability in Iceland.…”