The Career Aspiration Scale: Instrument development and research applications.

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The results of four studies illustrated sound psychometric properties of the CAS when used with adolescent, college, and post-college white women. The final eight-item measure demonstrated strong test-retest reliability over a two-week period and evidenced moderate internal consistency. Convergent validity was supported by correlations with measures of multiple role self-efficacy, career decision-making self-efficacy, math self-efficacy, occupational self-efficacy, attitudes towards women's roles, attitudes towards feminism, instrumentality, and relative importance of career versus family. Discriminant validity was demonstrated through the absence of relations between the CAS total score and measures of attachment to mother and attachment to father. Finally, a two-factor solution consisting of the Leadership and Achievement Aspiration Scale and the Educational Aspiration Scale accounted for 70% of the variance in career aspiration in women.