Career decision self-efficacy Item Bank: A Simulation study

AZPILICUETA, ANA E.; CUPANI, MARCOS; GHÍO, FERNANDA B.; MORÁN, VALERIA E.; GARRIDO, SEBASTIÁN J.; BRUZZONE, MANUEL

Current Psychology

Springer

Año: 2022

1046-1310

he transformation of the current world of work, determined by technological advances, affects and challenges the career decision-making process. To face these changes, the career self-management model, derived from social cognitive career theory, offers an optimal framework that allows studying the career adaptive behaviors that favor the preparation for career decision-making. In order to obtain a measure for the core construct, career decision-making self-efficacy, we elaborated an item bank from the selection of reagents from two scales widely used in the field for its estimation. Item analysis was performed from the item response theory. The results evidenced the unidimensionality of the item pool, with difficulty indexes and ability levels covering most of the measured continuum. As regard reliability indexes (persons and items), we observed that the allocation of persons and items might be reproduced in a predictable way. Global fit of items was suitable in most of them. We also