The Development and Initial Validation of a Career Calling Scale for Emerging Adults
By Anna Praskova, Peter A. Creed, Michelle Hood. 2015
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Career calling, a salient career goal that is personally meaningful and oriented toward helping others, is a developmental construct that is especially important for emerging adults when making career decisions and setting career goals. As no existing measure reflects the developmental aspect of career calling, we devised an age-appropriate measure suitable for use with this population. We reviewed the extant literature, conducted focus groups, and used expert reviews to generate 34 initial items. Item and exploratory factor analyses were employed to reduce these items to 15, representing three reliable subscales (Study 1; N = 345 emerging adults). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the initial factor structure (Study 2; N = 527). Expected correlations with adult measures of career calling (search and presence), general career indecision, and life satisfaction supported construct validity (Study 2; N = 435). The implications for research and practice are discussed.
Subfields: Demography, Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Career identity and the complex mediating relationships between career preparatory actions and career progress markers (2015, methodology): “Similarly, others found negative associations between exploration and planning and career concerns (Creed, Fallon, & Hood, 2009) and positive associations with career preparation and life satisfaction (Duffy, Manuel, Borges, & Bott, 2011; Praskova et al., 2014a).”
- Testing a Calling Model of Psychological Career Success in Australian Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study (2014, methodology): “This study forms part of an ongoing project that is examining the assessment and the effects of career calling for young adults’ career development and well-being (Praskova et al., 2014).”