2023 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 168-178
This study was aimed at developing the Irrational Career Beliefs Inventory for university students. The participants who included 579 fourth grade university students who had experienced employment seeking activities completed the questionnaire. The following four factors emerged from factor analysis: unrealistic optimism, lack of confidence and self-underestimation, social evaluation prejudice, and persistence of ideal employment. Also, the inventory was shown to have reliability through internal consistency and confirmatory factor analysis, and validation through correlation with irrational beliefs, job search stress, and career decision-making self-efficacy as external criteria. These findings suggest that the inventory appears to have adequate psychometric reliability and validity. For further consideration, balance of participants, socio-economic factor of employment, test-retest reliability and predictive validity need to be examined.
