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Vocational interests and career

Adult Career Concerns Inventory.

ACCI

What it measures
Adult career-stage concerns aligned with Super's developmental stages: Exploration, Establishment, Maintenance, and Disengagement (each with three task subscales). Measures salience of vocational-development tasks and career-change status, supporting maxi-/mini-cycle recycling.
Length and format
61 (60 concern items, 15 per stage; plus 1 career-change-status item). 5-pt concern ratings (degree of current concern with each developmental task) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Several international adaptations in career-development research
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
Super, D.E., Thompson, A.S., & Lindeman, R.H. (1988). Adult Career Concerns Inventory. Consulting Psychologists Press. https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/counseling-psychology/career-assessment/adult-career-concerns-inventory/

https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/counseling-psychology/career-assessment/adult-career-concerns-inventory/

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