Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in a French-speaking Swiss sample: Psychometric properties and relationships to personality and work engagement

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• 作者：Jé ; rô ; me Rossier^a ; ^b ; ^{Jerome.Rossier@unil.ch} ; Gregory Zecca^a ; Sarah D. Stauffer^a ; Christian Maggiori^b ; Jean-Pierre Dauwalder^a
• 关键词：Career Adapt-Abilities ; Adaptability ; Personality ; Work engagement
• 刊名：Journal of Vocational Behavior
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：87_00018791
• 类别：psy
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：80
• 期：3
• 页码：734-743
• 文件大小：350 K

摘要

The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) in a French-speaking Swiss sample and its relationship with personality dimensions and work engagement. The heterogeneous sample of 391 participants (M_age = 39.59, SD = 12.30) completed the CAAS-International and a short version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. To assess personality dimensions, participants completed either the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire (n = 283) or the NEO-FFI-R (n = 108). The internal consistencies for the four subscales and total scores of the CAAS ranged from good to excellent, and skewness and kurtosis values indicated that scores were normally distributed. Gender differences and correlations with age were small or negligible. Several CFA models confirmed the factor structure of the French version of the CAAS-International, with loadings very similar to the ones observed for the international form. Adaptability was related to different personality dimensions, particularly neuroticism and conscientiousness, and also to work engagement. When predicting work engagement, career adaptability had a significant incremental validity over personality dimensions. Finally, career adaptability partially moderated the relationship between personality and work engagement, suggesting that career adaptability also contributes to regulating the expression of personality dispositions.