Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students
This study presents a personality evaluation instrument adapted to the vocational setting: the Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire (AVPQ). The questionnaire was developed and tested in a sample of 2160 university students in the final years of their degree programs. The purpose of the stud...
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doaj-d104b2a2a4bc465bbeb76ddbfe5f0e0d2020-11-25T01:06:32ZengServicio de PublicacionesAnales de Psicología0212-97282013-05-0129247048110.6018/analesps.29.2.139321S0212-97282013000200018Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university studentsAmparo Gómez-Artiga0Susana Lloret-Segura1Esperanza Rocabert-Beút2Adela Descals-Tomás3Universitat de ValènciaUniversitat de ValènciaUniversitat de ValènciaUniversitat de ValènciaThis study presents a personality evaluation instrument adapted to the vocational setting: the Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire (AVPQ). The questionnaire was developed and tested in a sample of 2160 university students in the final years of their degree programs. The purpose of the study is to validate the questionnaire, providing evidence about its internal structure and its usefulness for predicting scores on a criterion scale. A confirmatory factor analysis combined with a cross-validation design was used: the exploratory sample (n = 879) helped to identify the model with the factorial structure that best fit the relations among the items. As expected, this model had two related but clearly separate factors: Adaptive Personality Characteristics (AC) with 9 items and Non-Adaptive Personality Characteristics (NAC) with 11 items. The validation sample (n =932) was used to test the generalization capacity of this model, which was satisfactory and showed a good reliability index. Regarding its usefulness in predicting proactive job-search behaviors, the results were also satisfactory. The questionnaire and keys are provided, as well as the criteria for calculating the scores on each scale and on the entire questionnaire.http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0212-97282013000200018&lng=en&tlng=enPersonalidad adaptativaconducta vocacionalconducta de búsqueda de empleoescalasinstrumento de evaluación |
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Amparo Gómez-Artiga Susana Lloret-Segura Esperanza Rocabert-Beút Adela Descals-Tomás Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students Anales de Psicología Personalidad adaptativa conducta vocacional conducta de búsqueda de empleo escalas instrumento de evaluación |
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Amparo Gómez-Artiga Susana Lloret-Segura Esperanza Rocabert-Beút Adela Descals-Tomás |
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Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students |
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Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students |
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Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students |
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Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students |
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Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students |
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adaptive vocational personality questionnaire development and validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students |
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This study presents a personality evaluation instrument adapted to the vocational setting: the Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire (AVPQ). The questionnaire was developed and tested in a sample of 2160 university students in the final years of their degree programs. The purpose of the study is to validate the questionnaire, providing evidence about its internal structure and its usefulness for predicting scores on a criterion scale. A confirmatory factor analysis combined with a cross-validation design was used: the exploratory sample (n = 879) helped to identify the model with the factorial structure that best fit the relations among the items. As expected, this model had two related but clearly separate factors: Adaptive Personality Characteristics (AC) with 9 items and Non-Adaptive Personality Characteristics (NAC) with 11 items. The validation sample (n =932) was used to test the generalization capacity of this model, which was satisfactory and showed a good reliability index. Regarding its usefulness in predicting proactive job-search behaviors, the results were also satisfactory. The questionnaire and keys are provided, as well as the criteria for calculating the scores on each scale and on the entire questionnaire. |
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Personalidad adaptativa conducta vocacional conducta de búsqueda de empleo escalas instrumento de evaluación |
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