Construction and evidence of validity of Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) Brazilian form for adolescents

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2020.3.33735

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adaptability, adolescents, test construction

Abstract

Career adaptability is a theme widely studied in the area of career for its practical and theoretical relevance. The aim of this study was to test a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) with a sample of adolescents, and including an additional dimension called cooperation. A total of 592 adolescents participated (303 female) from private (n=275) and public schools (n=317), in Porto Alegre. The adolescents were between 13 and 18 years old (M=16,02 e SD=1,08). In the first random subsample (n=296), an exploratory factor analysis was conducted and resulted in a five-factor solution. Afterwards, with the remainder of the sample, a confirmatory factor analysis was performed, ratifying the five-dimension model. The results indicate that the instrument tested has a dimensional structure compatible with the theoretical model adopted and acceptable psychometric properties, in addition to having the cooperation dimension added.

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Larissa Sanford Ayres Farina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Psicóloga formada pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); especialista em Gestão de Pessoas e em Dinâmica dos Grupos, Mestra e atual doutoranda do Programa de PósGraduação em Psicologia, também pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

Roberta Pozzi Kretzmann, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Psicóloga. Especialista em Psicodiagnóstico e Avaliação Psicológica pelo Contemporâneo: Instituto de Psicanálise e Transdisciplinaridade (CIPT/RS). Mestre em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Membro do BioSig (Laboratório de Biossinais Cognitivos) da UFRGS.

Letícia Garibaldi Gasparetto, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Especialista em Terapia Cognitivo-Comportamental pelo InTCC; Mestre em Desenvolvimento Humano pela UFRGS; doutoranda em Psicologia pela UFSC.

Gabriel dos Reis Rodrigues, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Graduado em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); mestrando em Psicologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia pela UFRGS, no Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção em Carreira.

Marúcia Patta Bardagi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.

Professora adjunta do curso de Psicologia da UFSC. Psicóloga pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Mestra e Doutora em Psicologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia também pela UFRGS, em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Cláudia Hofheinz Giacomoni, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

Professora do Departamento de Psicologia do Desenvolvimento e da Personalidade e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Graduada em Psicologia pela PUCRS e Mestra e Doutora pela UFRGS.

Marco Antônio Teixeira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Psicólogo formado pela UFRGS, Mestre e Doutor pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Coordenador dos programas de extensão continuados Núcleo de Apoio ao Estudante da UFRGS (desde 2006) e Serviço de Orientação Profissional (desde 2012).

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2020-12-31

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Sanford Ayres Farina, L. ., Pozzi Kretzmann, R., Garibaldi Gasparetto, L., dos Reis Rodrigues, G., Patta Bardagi, M., Hofheinz Giacomoni, C., & Teixeira, M. A. . (2020). Construction and evidence of validity of Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) Brazilian form for adolescents. Psico, 51(3), e33735. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2020.3.33735

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