Development of Career Barriers Inventory (CBI)

The aim of this study is to develop a scale to measure the career barriers of university students. In the scope of the study, pilot study on the scale of 25 students; explanatory factor analysis (EFA) on 387 students; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on 573 students and test-retest reliability on 21 students were conducted. The explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed for the construct validity of the scale. The Perceived Career Barrier Scale was used for the criterion-related validity study. Parallel analysis was used to determine the number of factors for CBS. In the reliability studies of the scale, Cronbach's Alpha internal consistency coefficient and test-retest correlation were calculated. According to the results of EFA and CFA, the coefficients of internal consistency were 0,79-0,75 for the first dimension, 0,71-0,63 for the second dimension; 0,71-0,68 for the third dimension and 0,52-0,50 for the fourth dimension of the scale. Correlation coefficients (r) corrected for test retest reliability were found to be 0,93 for the first dimension, 0,81 for the second dimension, 0,89 for the third dimension, and 0,65 for the fourth dimension.