Career Sustainability Scale: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version
Gerardo Petruzziello, Elena Lo Piccolo, Silvia Galassi, Marco Giovanni Mariani
Career sustainability is a prominent issue for scholars, as it contributes to sustainable livelihoods in the context of major societal challenges. The Career Sustainability Scale is a 12-item tool that measures career sustainability; it comprises four factors that emphasise the possibilities of self-realisation, success, adaptation and well-being throughout one’s career: resourcefulness, flexibility, renewability and integration. This study aims to adapt the career sustainability scale to Italian and evaluate its psychometric characteristics with 269 Italian employees in the hospitality industry. An adaptation with the back-to-back translation method made it possible to assess the factorial structure of the scale at the confirmatory level, the internal consistency, and the external validity with the Protean Career Orientation Scale and the Perceived Employability Scale. A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the factor structure with acceptable internal consistency indices. Moreover, regarding external validity, the results indicate positive correlations between the Career Sustainability Scale and the Protean Career Orientation and PerceivedEmployability scales. The results provide encouraging evidence about the validity of this scale, suggesting its effectiveness in its use for research and intervention in the Italian context.
Keywords
Career sustainability, Psychology of sustainability and sustainable development, Employability, Measurement tool, Psychometric Properties, Instrument validation.
