Career Commitment Measure.

CCM

What it measures

Career (occupational) commitment - one's attitude toward and motivation to remain in one's chosen vocation/occupation. Later elaborations distinguish affective, continuance, and normative career commitment.

Length and format

8 (Blau 1985 original); 12 in the three-component (affective/continuance/normative) version. 5-point Likert agreement (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many international adaptations (e.g. Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic) in I-O / careers 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

open with attribution

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Reference

Blau, G.J. (1985). The measurement and prediction of career commitment. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 58(4), 277-288. Related: Carson, K.D., & Bedeian, A.G. (1994). Career commitment: Construction of a measure and examination of its psychometric properties. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 44(3), 237-262.