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Professional fulfillment: Concept and instrument proposition
journal contribution
posted on 2019-04-29, 08:15 authored by Ligia Carolina Oliveira-Silva, Juliana Barreiros Porto, John ArnoldJohn Arnold© 2019, Universidade Sao Francisco. This paper aims to propose a concept and an instrument of professional fulfillment (PF), which is theoretically defined as the perception of having attained or being on the right track for attaining one's most important career goals. The Professional Fulfillment Scale (PFS) was developed in order to operationalize PF, being tested across two studies. Regarding Study 1, in which 406 workers took part, results from exploratory factor analysis evidenced construct validity for PFS. In Study 2, in which 270 workers took part, results from confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling presented satisfactory model fit indices for PFS. We conclude that both the professional fulfillment concept and the scale are useful for mapping people's importance and achievement of career goals and evaluation of progress, working as a diagnostic tool for career management.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Psico-USFVolume
24Issue
1Pages
27 - 39Citation
OLIVEIRA-SILVA, L.C., PORTO, J.B. and ARNOLD, J., 2019. Professional fulfillment: Concept and instrument proposition. Psico-USF, 24(1), pp. 27 - 39.Publisher
Universidade de Sao FranciscoVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-10-08Publication date
2019-04-01Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Universidade de Sao Francisco under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/eISSN
2175-3563Publisher version
Language
- en