Comparing two career adaptability measures for career construction theory : relations with boundaryless mindset and protean career attitudes

• Main Authors: Chan, Kim Yin, Uy, Marilyn A., Ho, Moon-Ho Ringo, Sam, Y.L., Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S., Yu, Kang Yang Trevor
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Operations management::Business ethics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103754; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25182
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We examined the constructs underlying the Career Maturity Inventory-Adaptability Form (CMI-C) and the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS). Data from 852 university students indicated that the second-order factors for both scales correlate .43, suggesting that they measure different yet related constructs. All three subscales of the CMI-C correlate most with the “concern” subscale of the CAAS rather than with the corresponding subscale. It appears that the CMI-C is a measure of particular career adaptability for choosing a career whereas the CAAS is a global measure of career adaptability for dealing with all of the tasks of vocational development across the life span. Regression analyses show that the CMI-C does not add to the prediction of boundaryless mindset and protean career attitudes over the CAAS. Relationships between the CMI-C and CAAS with entrepreneurial, professional, and leadership career motivation profiles showed that the CAAS is more strongly related to boundaryless mindset and protean career attitudes, while the CMI-C appears to relate to more traditional (professional and leadership) career motivations.