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Vocational interests and career

Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes Scales.

PCA / BCA

What it measures
Contemporary career-attitude orientations: Protean career (Self-Directed Career Management + Values-Driven) and Boundaryless career (Boundaryless Mindset + Organizational Mobility Preference).
Length and format
27 (Protean 14: Self-Directed 8 + Values-Driven 6; Boundaryless 13: Boundaryless Mindset 8 + Mobility Preference 5). Likert agreement ratings (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many validated translations (e.g. German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian and others); short forms developed
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
Briscoe, J.P., Hall, D.T., & DeMuth, R.L.F. (2006). Protean and boundaryless career attitudes: An empirical exploration. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 69(1), 30-47.

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