The student career construction inventory: validation with Portuguese university students

Career adaptation in higher education: a study with non-working and working students

“…Higher scores represent higher levels of adapting. The Portuguese version showed good reliability indices (0.71 < α < 0.91, Soares et al, 2022a), as well as we found for the present sample of university students (0.79 < α < 0.92).…”

“…Adapting was measured with the Portuguese version of the student career construction inventory (SCCI, Soares et al, 2022a), which included 18 items distributed by four factors: crystallizing (6 items, "Recognizing my talents and abilities"), exploring (3 items, "Reading about occupations"), deciding (5 items, "Finding a line of work that suits me"), and preparing (3 items, "Qualifying for the job that I like best"). Participants indicated how much they agreed with each statement, from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).…”

“…Evidence regarding the sequence ranging across adaptivity, adaptability, adapting, and adaptation, as well as, adaptability and adapting mediator role, is well reported in the literature, including among university students (e.g., Hirschi et al, 2015;Rudolph et al, 2017;Savickas et al, 2018;Soares et al, 2021aSoares et al, , 2022aYıldız-Akyol and Öztemel, 2021). For example, Yıldız-Akyol and Öztemel (2021), in a sample of Turkish university students, found significant and positive relations between students' adaptivity (i.e., grade point average), adaptability (i.e., concern, control, curiosity, confidence), adapting (i.e., crystallizing, exploring, deciding, preparing), and adaptation (i.e., academic satisfaction).…”

Analysis of the Mediation Role of Career Adaptability In the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Achievement Motivation For Generation Z Students in West Kalimantan

“…Career adaptability is important in the face of changing online learning systems to faceto-face learning systems. This variable is believed to be important in the formation of student achievement motivation, because its existence is proven to be able to increase the formation of positive responses in the face of various difficulties [29] environment, makes a person more open to new experiences and situations, more aware of the existence of his career, more successful and more satisfied than others [30]. Specifically, research has also proven that the better the career adaptability, the better one's motivation [31] especially the self-efficacy aspect of motivation [39] because of the existence of this aspect of motivation.…”