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Development and Validation of Visions about Future in Early Adolescence
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Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Santilli, Sara; Di Maggio, Ilaria; Nota, Laura; Soresi, Salvatore – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
This article reports the development and psychometric requisites of Visions About Future (VAF), a measure to assess optimism, pessimism, and hope in early adolescence. Two different studies involving Italian middle school students were conducted. With the first study, the items were developed and the factor structure verified by using item…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Psychometrics, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale--Italian Form: Psychometric Properties and Relationships to Breadth of Interests, Quality of Life, and Perceived Barriers
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Soresi, Salvatore; Nota, Laura; Ferrari, Lea – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS)-Italian Form consists of four 6-item scales, which measure concern, control, curiosity, and confidence as psychosocial resources for managing occupational transitions, developmental tasks, and work traumas. The 24-item CAAS-Italian Form is identical to the International Form 2.0. The factor structure was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Adjustment, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
The Career and Work Adaptability Questionnaire (CWAQ): A First Contribution to Its Validation
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Nota, Laura; Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Soresi, Salvatore – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
Over the last decade, occupational changes have the rapidly changing job market has begun to demand that people more actively construct their professional lives and acquire career adaptability. The aim of the present study was to develop a specific, new instrument, "Career and Work Adaptability", to assess degree of adaptability in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Career Development, Career Guidance
Career Decision-Making Profiles of Italian Adolescents
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Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Nota, Laura; Soresi, Salvatore; Gati, Itamar – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
The goal of the present study was to test the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the "Career Decision-Making Profile" ("CDMP") questionnaire with a sample of 1,835 adolescents. Gati, Landman, Davidovitch, Asulin-Peretz, and Gadassi suggested that the way individuals make career decisions should not be described…
Descriptors: Profiles, Validity, Adolescents, Decision Making
Correspondence of Children's Anticipated Vocations, Perceived Competencies, and Interests: Results from an Italian Sample
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Prime, Dominic R.; Nota, Laura; Ferrari, Lea; Schultheiss, Donna E. Palladino; Soresi, Salvatore; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
Relations among anticipated vocations, self-assessments of competence, and interests in sample of 190 Italian children were examined. Children were asked what activities they liked, those they thought they were good at, and what job they expected when they grew up. The responses were coded into RIASEC Holland codes and agreement across the three…
Descriptors: Interests, Children, Competence, Foreign Countries
Examining Cultural Validity of the Problem-Solving Inventory (PSI) in Italy
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Nota, Laura; Heppner, P. Paul; Soresi, Salvatore; Heppner, Mary J. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2009
The problem-solving inventory (PSI) is the most widely used applied problem-solving measure in the United States. Although a great deal of validity and reliability information exists for the PSI, much of this data has been collected in the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine the PSI's psychometric estimates with a large sample…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Measures (Individuals), Validity, Psychometrics