Yang Lan, Sin Kuen Fung, Savickas Mark L
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Analytics\Assessment Research Centre (ARC), The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 15;14:1030218. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1030218. eCollection 2023.
Despite the importance of career guidance and life planning education in helping students' career development, considerably limited research has been done to provide a good educational assessment to identify SEN students' strengths and weaknesses of career adaptability. This study aimed to assess the factor structure of the career adaptability scale in mainstream secondary students with special educational needs. The results support adequate reliabilities of the total scale and subscales of the CAAS-SF among over 200 SEN students. The results also support the four-factor structure of the career adaptability construct in assessing career concern, control, curiosity and confidence. We also found its measurement invariance across gender at the scalar invariance level. The positive and significant correlation patterns between boys' and girls' career adaptability and its sub-dimensions with self-esteem are similar. Overall, this study support that the CAAS-SF is a good measure with adequate psychometric properties for assessing and developing practical career guidance and life planning activities and programs for SEN students to support their career development needs.
尽管职业指导和人生规划教育在帮助学生职业发展方面很重要，但为了提供良好的教育评估以识别特殊教育需求（SEN）学生职业适应性的优势和劣势所做的研究相当有限。本研究旨在评估有特殊教育需求的主流中学生职业适应力量表的因素结构。结果支持了在200多名有特殊教育需求的学生中，CAAS-SF总量表和子量表具有足够的信度。结果还支持了职业适应性结构的四因素结构，用于评估职业关注、控制、好奇心和信心。我们还发现它在标量不变性水平上具有跨性别测量不变性。男孩和女孩的职业适应性及其子维度与自尊之间的正相关和显著相关模式相似。总体而言，本研究支持CAAS-SF是一种具有足够心理测量特性的良好测量工具，可用于评估和开展实用的职业指导和人生规划活动及项目，以满足有特殊教育需求学生的职业发展需求。
