Abstract
The purposes of this study were to develop and validate the Career Barriers Scale (CBS). Based on the review of previous studies, the concept of the career barriers was operationally defined to the experiences in the external, and items suitable for multicultural elementary school students were extracted. In addition, preliminary items were developed through content validity verification among experts in career education, multicultural education, and measurement tool development and research. The preliminary scale was administered to a sample of 10 multicultural elementary school students and item-score correlation and factor extraction were implemented. The revised scale consisting of 34 items was administered to a sample of another 200 multicultural elementary school students. And then, the CBS was finally developed, which consists of 4 factors and 28 items, including such factors as negative feedback from significant others, lack of career support, economic and cultural restrictions, discrimination (gender/race/culture). The CFA were performed in order to assess the construct validity. The 4 factor model was proved good fit to the data and all items had a significant effect to each construct from which it can be concluded that convergent validity is supported for all of the items. The construct reliability index and average variance extracted index indicated good reliability of this scale. Based on the results, some recommendations for further study and practices were suggested.
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