دانلود رایگان مقاله مقیاس سازگاری توانایی شغلی فرم نیجریه: خواص روان سنجی و اعتبار سازه

2. Results

The CAAS-Nigeria items mean scores and standard deviations reported in Table 1 suggest that the typical response was in the range of strong to very strong. Skewness and kurtosis values for the 24 CAAS-Nigeria items ranged from (−1.22 to −.50) and from (1.7 to .03), an indication that the items conform to the assumptions of confirmatory factor analysis for this sample. The subscale mean scores and standard deviations for the CAAS-Nigeria are reported in Table 1. Similar to the International form, the mean score for concern was 3.98, control was 3.83, curiosity was 3.83 and confidence was 3.87 in the Nigerian form respectively. Skewness and kurtosis values for the four CAAS-Nigeria subscales ranged from (−1.07 to −.61) and from (1.57 to .44), an indication that the subscales conform to the assumptions of correlation-based statistics for this sample.

3. Discussion

The result of this study indicate that the CAAS-Nigeria performs similarly to the CAASInternational in terms of psychometric characteristics and factor structure. The total scale and four subscales each demonstrate excellent internal consistency estimates, indicating an acceptable fit to the proposed hierarchical theoretical model to describe the relation between the four subscales that make up career adaptability resources. However, confirmatory factor analysis of the CAAS-Nigeria data with a lower fit (when compared with CAAS-International sample) to the theoretical model might be a reflection of the ethnic diversity, participants characteristics, unemployment or labor market conditions that influence career adaptability. The result shows that curiosity had the highest score among the four subscales. It appears that employees in Nigeria are more curious about their career rather than being concerned or taking control of their career-related outcomes. This might be as a result of unpredictable work environment, high unemployment rate and the current state of the economy. Specifically, it appears that individual employees are more interested in seeking various work opportunities that will promote their career-related outcomes.