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ERIC Number: EJ1153215
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Oct
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0734-2829
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Development and Initial Validation of a Measure to Assess Career Goal Feedback
Hu, Shi; Creed, Peter A.; Hood, Michelle
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, v35 n7 p657-669 Oct 2017
Career goal feedback provides information about career goal suitability, adequacy of goal progress, and whether changes are needed to reach the goals. Feedback comes from external (e.g., parents, peers) and internal sources (e.g., self-reflection), and plays an important role in the career development of young people. As there is no existing measure that adequately captures this construct, we devised and validated a 24-item inventory for use with young adults. In Study 1, initial items were developed, expert reviewed, and administered to a sample of Chinese university students (N = 1,055; M[subscript AGE] = 19 years). We used exploratory factor analysis to test the factor structure and confirmatory factor analysis on a holdout sample to validate a third-order solution (one third-order factor manifested by three second-order factors). In addition, we provided evidence for convergent and incremental validity. In Study 2, we confirmed the factor structure on Australian university students (N = 184; M[subscript AGE] = 19 years).
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China; Australia
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