ERIC Number: EJ1485362
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Aug
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-0251-2513
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1782
Available Date: 2023-08-18
Undergraduate Students' Career Resources: Validation of the Italian Version of the Career Resources Questionnaire
International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, v25 n2 p759-781 2025
In recent years, to better face university paths, the first approaches to the labor market, and then the actual university-to-work transition, university students are asked to have broader skills, such as the ability to network, to be involved in career-related issues, and to explore the characteristics of occupations as much as personal ones. This study aims to verify the psychometric properties of the Italian translation of the Career Resources Questionnaire--Adolescent version (CRQ-A; Marciniak et al., 2020) among two samples of undergraduate students (N[subscript 1] = 270; N[subscript 2] = 184). Differently from the original version, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis suggested a 10-factor structure. Reliability and validity were confirmed. The results indicate that the Italian version of CRQ-A is a valid multidimensional instrument for exploring undergraduate students' career preparedness, consequently favoring universities in their role of preparing students for the decoding of the labor market and themselves as future workers.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Career Readiness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Palermo, Department of Economics, Business and Statistics, Palermo, Italy; 2University of Palermo, Department of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Human Movement, Palermo, Italy

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