The Career Satisfaction Scale: Psychometric Properties in Migrant Employees
Tariku Ayana Abdi, Alessandro Lo Presti
There is a growing interest in studying migrant career success, which is partly assessed using the Career Satisfaction Scale. However, because of the under-theorization of migrant careers, to our best knowledge, no research has adopted the widely used Career Satisfaction Scale by Greenhaus et al. (1990). This research seeks to adopt and assess the psychometric properties of Greenhaus and colleagues’ Career Satisfaction Scale for its precision and broad applicability in measuring the career satisfaction aspect of career success. We administered the Career Satisfaction Scale and the Perceived Employability Scale to 137 African migrant employees in Italy. We analysed the reliability of the Career Satisfaction Scale using Cronbach’s alpha and performed a confirmatory factor analysis and Pearson’s correlation to investigate its relationship with the Perceived Employability Scale. The results showed that the Career Satisfaction Scale is reliable and has concurrent validity with the Perceived Employability Scale. Overall, Greenhaus et al.’s (1990) Career Satisfaction Scale has good psychometric properties and is appropriate for research and career intervention among migrant workers.
Keywords
Migrant careers, Career success, Career satisfaction, Career Satisfaction Scale, African migrant workers.
