Management Science Letters (Apr 2013)

Normalization and psychometric properties of career skills confidence inventory

  • Zahra Jafari,
  • Amir Hossein Sadeghi Hasnijeh,
  • Reyhaneh Shojaee Jashvaghani,
  • Sedigheh Shirvani,
  • Mohammad Reza Iravani,
  • Mohammad Reza Abedi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. 1073 – 1076

Abstract

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This paper investigates normalization and psychometric properties of career skills confidence inventory. For this purpose, we use Betz’s questionnaire [Betz, N. E., Harmon, L., & Borgen, F. (1996). The relationships of self- efficacy for the Holland themes to gender, occupational group membership, and vocational interests. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 43, 90-98.], which consists of 60 questions in three groups of self-awareness, exploration and planning. The study distributes the questionnaire among 600 randomly selected students and analyzes the feedback using Pearson correlation ratios. The results indicate that there are some positive and meaningful correlations between three component and career counseling. There are also positive and meaningful relationships among three components of self-awareness, exploration and planning.

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