Development and Validation of a Career Future Time Perspective Scale. (October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Park, In-Jo; Han, Kyueun; Ryu, Kyung
• Is Part Of: Journal of career development. Volume 48:Number 5(2021)
• Page Start: 701
• Page End: 714
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Subjects: career future time perspective -- Rasch rating model -- career decision; Career education -- United States -- Periodicals; Career development -- Periodicals; 370.113
• DOI: 10.1177/0894845319887810
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0894-8453

Abstract

Future time perspective, like self-efficacy, can be understood both generally and domain specifically. Keeping this in mind, the current study aimed at developing and validating a Career Future Time Perspective Scale. In Study 1, we utilized an exploratory factor analysis and the Rasch rating model to ensure the construct validity of a Career Future Time Perspective Scale. The scale consisted of three factors—opportunity, value, and connectedness—across 9 items. In Study 2, we showed that this three-factor oblique scale was the most representative structure of career future time perspective. Study 3 demonstrated that after controlling for the future time perspective measures posited by Shell and Husman and Carstensen and Lang, this scale could also be used to explain: (a) career decision-making self-efficacy, (b) career-indecision tendencies, and (c) career-searching behavior. In Study 4, the reliability of the scale was demonstrated.