Adaptation and Validation of the Turkish Version of Career Anxiety Scale

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Recent changes and uncertainty in labor markets delay the demand and requirements of employment. Thus, career anxiety has made an important issue among university students. The aim of this study was to adapt the Career Anxiety Scale (CAS), originally developed by Tsai et al. (2017), into Turkish and to investigate its psychometric properties in terms of validity and reliability. The Turkish version of the CAS was administrated to four different groups (N= 619) to examine its validity and reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis, concurrent validity with intolerance to uncertainty and psychological well-being and test-retest reliability were conducted. After ensuring the linguistic equivalence and clarity, the results of confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the second-order four-factor structure had acceptable fit indices with the data of 356 undergraduate students. Correlation test results showed that the CAS and its subscales had positive relationships with intolerance to uncertainty, and negative relationships with psychological well-being. Internal consistency values were higher than .70 cutoff value and test-retest correlation coefficient was .88. In addition, it was observed that female university students scored higher than male students on both total career anxiety and its subscales, whereas no significant differences were found in total career anxiety or subscale scores across academic fields. The findings of this study indicate that the Turkish version of the scale is a valid and reliable instrument, offering a foundation for future research and interventions focused on understanding career-related anxiety.