Career Adapt-Abilities Scale: Construction, reliability, and measurement equivalence across 13 countries

2012/01/25 by Mark L. Savickas, Erik J. Porfeli · 2,302 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Adaptability #Applied psychology #Career Development and Diversity #Clinical psychology #Confirmatory factor analysis #Curiosity #Equivalence (formal languages) #External validity #Geography #Higher Education and Employability #Internal consistency #Mathematics #Measurement invariance #Psychology #Psychometrics #Psychosocial #Reliability (semiconductor) #Retirement, Disability, and Employment #Scale (ratio) #Social psychology #Statistics #Structural equation modeling

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2012.01.011

published in Journal of Vocational Behavior 80(3), 661-673 (Elsevier BV)

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