ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES DURING CAREER CHANGE - DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAREER TRANSITIONS INVENTORY

This article reports on the development and validation of the Career Transitions Inventory (CTI), a new 40-item multidimensional measure of career change adjustment, which was designed to measure perceptions of psychological resources operating when adults pursue a career transition. Items for the instrument were developed on theoretical grounds. The initial sample consisted of 300 adults who were in career transition. A principle components factor analysis followed by a varimax rotation revealed five factors: (a) readiness, (b) confidence, (c) perceived support, (d) control, and (e) decision independence. Results of two additional samples to establish validity and reliability estimates revealed that the CTI is an instrument with good internal consistency, accounts for a sufficiently high proportion of the overall variance, and has moderately high stability over time. Investigations of construct validity appear promising. Implications for future research and practice are discussed. © 1994 Academic Press, Inc.