Validation studies of the Career Advancement Inventory for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

IF 1.2 3区医学 Q3 PSYCHIATRY

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI:10.1037/prj0000659

Uma Chandrika Millner, James Green, Amanda Nutton, Sarah Satgunam, Tracy Woods, Larry Ludlow

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Abstract

Objective: Measuring the career development of individuals with psychiatric disabilities is essential for assessing their employment preparedness and the impact of educational and vocational supports and programs. The primary purpose of the two studies presented was to develop a shorter version of an established instrument, the Career Advancement Inventory (CAI), that assesses the psychological preparedness for careers and employment among individuals with psychiatric disabilities. The CAI was originally developed using a community-based participatory research approach and a combination of Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory resulting in a 111-item scale.

Methods: We utilized exploratory factor analysis, reliability coefficients, correlations, and t tests to assess the factor structure, reduce the number of items, and establish the norms of the CAI. Two diverse samples were included, an online sample (n = 500) and an in-person sample (n = 100) of individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

Results: The resultant 52-item Career Advancement Inventory-Short Version has a five-factor structure and demonstrated excellent norms with high reliability and moderate to high concurrent, divergent, and known groups validity.

Conclusions and implications for practice: The Career Advancement Inventory-Short Version would be useful in assessing the career preparation of individuals with psychiatric disabilities and has implications for clinicians, rehabilitation providers, researchers, and educational and employment interventions for these populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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精神障碍个体职业发展量表的验证研究。

目的：测量精神障碍个体的职业发展对评估他们的就业准备以及教育和职业支持和计划的影响至关重要。提出这两项研究的主要目的是开发一个较短版本的既定工具，职业发展量表（CAI），评估精神残疾个体对职业和就业的心理准备。CAI最初采用基于社区的参与式研究方法，并结合经典测试理论和项目反应理论，产生了111个项目的量表。方法：采用探索性因子分析、信度系数、相关性、t检验等方法评估因子结构，减少条目数量，建立CAI的规范。包括两个不同的样本，一个在线样本（n = 500）和一个亲自样本（n = 100）的精神障碍患者。结果：编制的52项职业发展量表具有五因子结构，具有较高的信度和中至高的并发效度、发散效度和已知效度。结论和实践意义：职业发展量表-短版本将有助于评估精神残疾个体的职业准备，并对临床医生、康复提供者、研究人员以及这些人群的教育和就业干预具有重要意义。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Multiple-

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3.80

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5.30%

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期刊介绍： The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal is sponsored by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, at Boston University"s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and by the US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA) . The mission of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal is to promote the development of new knowledge related to psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery of persons with serious mental illnesses.