Career Issues

Measures related to career issues such as calling, overqualification, PE-fit and work-family.

Calling

Brief Calling Scale, BCS. Dik et al., 2012, Journal of Career Assessment. Scale of having but not necessarily living a calling.
Calling. Dobrow & Tosti-Kharas 2011, Personnel Psychology. Four domains: music, art, business, & management.
Calling and Vocation Questionnaire, CVQ. Dik et al., 2012, Journal of Career Assessment. Subscales of Transcendent Summons, Purposeful Work, and Prosocial Orientation both present and searching, plus total scores.
Living a Calling Scale, LCS. Duffy et al. 2012, Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Work as Meaning Inventory, WAMI. Steger et al. 2012, Journal of Career Assessment. Three subscales of Positive meaning, Meaning making through work, and Greater good motivations.

Career Resources Questionnaire CRQ. Hirischi et al. 2017, Journal of Career Assessment. Thirteen dimensions including Career confidence, Career involvement, Job challenge, Occupational expertise, and Social career support.

Decent Work Scale. Duffy et al. 2017, Journal of Counseling Psychology. Subscales of Safe working conditions, Access to healthcare, Adequate compensation, Free time, Values congruence.
Meaningful Work Scale. Lips-Wiersma & Wright 2012, Group & Organization Management. Subscales of Unity with others, Serving others, Expressing full potential, Developing and becoming self, Reality, Inspriation.

Military-Civilian Adjustment and Reintegration Measure M-CARM. Romaniuk et al. 2020, BMC Psychiatry. Subscales of Purpose and connection, Help seeking, Beliefs about civilians, Resentment and regret, Regimentation.

Perceived Cognitive Overqualification Questionnaire PCOQ. Fine & Nevo 2008, The International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Perceived Overqualification Scale POQ. Johnson et al. 2002, The Journal of Psychology. Extended the Khan & Morrow 1991, Journal of Business Research scale.
Subjective Underemployment Scales SUS. Allan et al. 2017, Journal of Vocational Behavior. Subscales of Underpayment, Status discrepancy, Hours discrepancy, Involuntary temporary work, Field, Poverty wage employment.
Work Volition Scale, WVS. Duffy et al., 2012, Journal of Vocational Behavior. Subscales of Volition, Financial constraints, Structural constraints.
Work Volition Scale–Student Version. Diemer et al. 2012, The Counseling Psychologist. Perceived capacity to make occupational choices.

Behavioral role conflict. Clark et al. 2019, Journal of Business and Psychology. Work-family conflict that focuses on behaviors.
Coping with work and family stressors. Clark et al. 2014, Journal of Business and Psychology. Covers strategies people use to cope with stressors from work and from family.
Work-Family Conflict Scale WAFCS. Haslam et al. 2015, Child Psychiatry and Human Development. Subscales of Family to work conflict and Work to family conflict.
Work-family and family-work conflict. Netemeyer et al. 1996.
Work-family conflict. The 6 dimension Carlson, Kacmar & Williams (2000) scale.
Work-Family Conflict Scale ISSP. Breyer & Bluemke, 2016. Zusammenstellung socialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen. 2-item scales of family-work and work-family. English and German language.
Work-family enrichment. The Carlson, Kacmar, Wayne, & Grzywacz (2006) scale.
Work and family engagement. Rothbard 2001. Subscales of Attention and Absorption for work and for family.
Work-Family Facilitation Scale. Sheila Holbrook 2005, Dissertation.