Abstract
Abstract The contemporary work context is characterized by unpredictability, thus requiring the ability of individuals to adapt to changes imposed by the market. Career adaptability refers to the individual’s ability to handle working transitions in turbulent times. This study aimed to test the structural invariance of the last Brazilian version of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) according to sex and observe possible differences between men and women in the dimensions of adaptability. The sample consisted of 599 Brazilian professionals, of both sexes, with higher education level. The CAAS was subject to confirmatory factor analysis and invariance testing, demonstrating structural invariance according to sex. A subsequent MANOVA evidenced the lack of differences between men and women in the four dimensions of the CAAS. Results corroborate the consistency and reliability of the CAAS as an instrument for measuring career adaptability in both sexes.
Highlights
The world is currently experiencing rapid changes in human and professional relations with impacts on the market, which has become more dynamic, unpredictable, and unstable
This study aims at helping to fill some of those gaps
Given the prominence of the construct in the literature review, which showed the importance of improving the Brazilian version of this instrument, this study aimed to test the evidence of validity of Audibert and Teixeira’s (2015) version of the career adaptability scale (CAAS) in a sample consisted of Brazilians with complete higher education, testing for the invariance of its structure according to sex
Summary
The world is currently experiencing rapid changes in human and professional relations with impacts on the market, which has become more dynamic, unpredictable, and unstable. In this scenario, the complexity of both interpersonal relations and production means. Market dynamics and instability increasingly require professionals to be able to adapt to changes which directly affect their professional and personal lives. In the 1970s and 1980s, Donald Super had already pointed to the importance and influence of market instability on career development (Super & Knasel, 1981), with an intensification of studies on the subject in the last decades of the twentieth century
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