Career Satisfaction Scale.
CSS
- What it measures
- Subjective career success: satisfaction with overall career progress toward goals for success, income, advancement, and skill development (an internally referenced career outcome, distinct from job satisfaction).
- Length and format
- 5 items. 5-pt Likert agreement (strongly disagree -> strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Numerous translations (used in 240+ studies internationally; e.g. German, Chinese and many others)
- 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
- Greenhaus, J.H., Parasuraman, S., & Wormley, W.M. (1990). Effects of race on organizational experiences, job performance evaluations, and career outcomes. Academy of Management Journal, 33(1), 64-86.
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