Genova Helen M, Kallen Michael A, Sherwood Kari L, Dawalt Leann, Bishop Lauren, Telfer David, Brown Cheryl, Sanchez Barbara, Smith Matthew J
Kessler Foundation, 120 Eagle Rock Avenue, East Hanover, New Jersey USA.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
J Vocat Rehabil. 2023;58(2):199-217. doi: 10.3233/jvr-230009. Epub 2023 Mar 17.
The study of job interview training is an emerging area among transition-age autistic youth who face significant challenges when navigating job interviews. The autism field has limited measures that have undergone rigorous psychometric evaluation.
We sought to evaluate the psychometric properties of adapted self-report measures assessing job interview skills and job interview anxiety.
As part of two parent randomized controlled trials, eighty-five transition-age autistic youth completed measures related to the strength of their job interview skills and their level of job interview anxiety. We conducted classical test theory analyses, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and Rasch model analytic and calibration analyses. Pearson correlations were used to establish concurrent, divergent, and criterion validity by correlating these scales with measures of social differences, depressive symptoms, behaviors, neuropsychological functioning, and work history.
Our analyses yielded two brief and reliable scales: Measure of Job Interview Skills (MOJO-iSkills) and Measure of Job Interview Anxiety (MOJO-iAnxiety), which demonstrated initial concurrent, divergent, and criterion validities when correlated with measures of depressive symptoms, social differences, internalizing and externalizing behavior, and work history.
This study presents initial evidence that MOJO-iSkills and MOJO-iAnxiety have acceptable psychometric properties supporting they can be used to reliably and validly assess job interview skills and interview anxiety.
求职面试培训研究是转型期自闭症青年中的一个新兴领域，这些青年在应对求职面试时面临重大挑战。自闭症领域经过严格心理测量评估的测量方法有限。
我们试图评估评估求职面试技能和求职面试焦虑的适应性自我报告测量方法的心理测量特性。
作为两项家长随机对照试验的一部分，85名转型期自闭症青年完成了与他们的求职面试技能强度和求职面试焦虑水平相关的测量。我们进行了经典测试理论分析、探索性和验证性因素分析以及拉施模型分析和校准分析。通过将这些量表与社会差异、抑郁症状、行为、神经心理功能和工作经历的测量进行相关分析，使用皮尔逊相关性来确定同时效度、区分效度和标准效度。
我们的分析得出了两个简短且可靠的量表：求职面试技能量表（MOJO-iSkills）和求职面试焦虑量表（MOJO-iAnxiety），当与抑郁症状、社会差异、内化和外化行为以及工作经历的测量相关时，这两个量表显示出初步的同时效度、区分效度和标准效度。
本研究提供了初步证据，表明MOJO-iSkills和MOJO-iAnxiety具有可接受的心理测量特性，支持它们可用于可靠且有效地评估求职面试技能和面试焦虑。
