Using the Adult Career Concerns Inventory to Measure Task Involvement
✍ Scribed by Spencer G. Niles; Daniel M. Lewis; Paul J. Hartung
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 635 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0889-4019
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✦ Synopsis
The Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI) uses an attitudinal item-response scale to measure the planning attitudes dimension of career adaptability. This study examined the psychometric properties of the ACCI when used with a behavioral item-response scale. Results supported the hypothesized unidimensionality of the ACCI-B Exploration subscales, which related as expected to vocational identity, need for occupational information, career choice certainty, and career indecision. Using a behavioral ACCI item-response scale, in addition to an attitudinal one, may provide counselors with important information when working with client's making an initial career choice.
The Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI; Super, Thompson, Lindeman, Jordaan, & Myers, 1988) evolved from the Career Development Inventory-Adult Fonn (CDI-A). Super, constructed the CDI-A to measure degree of development through the career stages of exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement. The CDI-A uses behavioral response options ranging from "I have not yet thought much about it" (1) to "I have already done this" (5) to assess concern and involvement with three developmental tasks of each of these four stages. The CDI-A can be scored for task involvement by using the Life Stage method. Life stage scores are obtained by summing the ratings (1 to 5) for all items in each stage of career development. Savickas, Passen, and -Iarjoura (1988) noted that task concern scores can be obtained by summing items rated 2 ("I have thought about it, but don't know what to do"), 3 ("I know what to do about it"), and 4 ("I am now doing what needs to be done"). A critical point in theACCI's history involved changing the CDI-A item-response scale from behavioral (e.g., "I am now doing what