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The aim of this research is to examine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Career Futures Inventory–Revised (CFI-R; Rottinghaus et al. J Career Assessment 20:123–139, 2012). Participants were 346 (189 female and 157 male) teachers who were employed in different schools in Istanbul and Sakarya. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that five-dimensional Career Futures Inventory model (career agency, negative career outlook, occupational outlook, support, and work-life balance) was well fit (x 2 = 800.01, df = 335, p = 0.00, RMSEA = .049, NFI = .88, NNFI = .92, CFI = .92, IFI = .93, RFI = .86, GFI = .91, AGFI = .89, and SRMR = .048). The internal consistency coefficients of five subscales were .57, .81, .70, .88, and .83, respectively. The corrected item-total correlations of CFI-R ranged from .36 to .82. Overall findings demonstrated that this scale had high validity and reliability scores and that it may be used as a valid and reliable instrument in order to understand current attitudes toward a variety of career transitions. Nevertheless, further studies that will use CFI-R are important for its measurement force.
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Hamedoğlu, M.A. et al. (2014). The Turkish Version of the Career Futures Inventory-Revised: The Validity and Reliability Study. In: Banerjee, S., Erçetin, Ş. (eds) Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7362-2_59
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