Construct validity of the career resilience questionnaire

Date
2002-02
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AOSIS Publishing
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The construct validity of the Career Resilience Questionnaire (Fourie & VanVuuren, 1998) was investigated by means of an oblique multiple groups factor analysis.The highest factor structure coe⁄cients of several of the items did not coincide with the respective factors that the items were postulated tomeasure. In addition, the correlations among the factors cast doubt on the independence of some of the constructs. The conclusion is drawn that a measure of career resilience should be based on an explicit theoretical measurement model rather than on an empirically derived measurement model. It is further recommended that the test items should have high face validity and content-saturation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die konstrukgeldigheid van die CareerResilience Questionnaire (Fourie & VanVuuren,1998) is aan die hand van die gekorreleerde meervoudige-groeperingsmetode van faktorontleding ondersoek. Die resultate dui daarop dat verskeie items nie hulle hoogste faktorstruktuurkoe«⁄sie«nte op die gepostuleerde faktore gehad het nie.Verder het die korrelasies tussen die faktore daarop gedui dat die gepostuleerde konstrukte nie onafhanklik is nie. Die gevolgtrekking is gemaak dat ’n meetinstrument van loopbaangehardheid (career resilience) eerder op’n eksplisiete teoretiese metingsmodel gebaseer moet wees as op ’n empiriese verkree« metingsmodel.’nVerdere aanbeveling is dat die items oor ’n hoe« mate van gesigsgeldigheid en inhoudsversadigingmoet beskik
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CITATION: De Bruin, G. P. & Lew, C. C. 200. Construct validity of the career resilience questionnaire. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology / SA Tydskrif vir Bedryfsielkunde, 28(1):67-69, doi:10.4102/sajip.v28i1.32.
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Keywords
Career Assessment Inventory, Questionnaires -- Design, Personality questionnaires
Citation
De Bruin, G. P. & Lew, C. C. 200. Construct validity of the career resilience questionnaire. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology / SA Tydskrif vir Bedryfsielkunde, 28(1):67-69, doi:10.4102/sajip.v28i1.32