Career Mindfulness: Conceptualization and Scale Development

Abstract

This study aims to conceptualize and operationalize career mindfulness. A literature review, as well as qualitative and quantitative research approaches, were employed for this goal. First, this study used a construction technique to conceptualize career mindfulness for undergraduate students on the basis of mindfulness. Accordingly, this study defined career mindfulness as the level of a student's awareness of his/her efforts to fulfill current professional requirements and the resulting professional specialization for his/her career through being mentally alert and ready by nonjudgmentally focusing attention on present experiences. Second, career mindfulness was made measurable in the context of undergraduate students' tourist guiding careers. For developing the scale, 22 items were generated from the literature using simplification, extraction, and harmonization procedures, and 12 items were constructed from qualitative research data using content analysis. Qualitative research data were collected from 24 academicians, 30 tourist guides, and 18 travel agency managers through the qualitative form. After comparing the items produced from the literature and qualitative research, a general pool of 28 items was established by re-simplification. The evaluation of 25 experts whose opinions were solicited for the scale's content validity resulted in a decision that 8 items were valid. Finally, the 8-item and one-dimensional 'Career Mindfulness Scale' was developed based on the results of the exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis performed with the data collected from tourism guidance undergraduate students (n=328). The study concludes with theoretical and practical implications for the research findings.

Keywords

• Career mindfulness
• Occupational awareness
• Tourist guidance
• Undergraduate students

Bilinçli Kariyer Farkındalığı: Kavramsallaştırma ve Ölçek Geliştirme

Öz

Bu çalışmanın amacı, bilinçli kariyer farkındalığını kavramsallaştırmak ve ölçülebilir hale getirmektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda literatür taraması, nitel ve nicel araştırma yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. Çalışmada öncelikle bilinçli kariyer farkındalığı, yapılandırma yöntemiyle bilinçli farkındalık temelinde yükseköğretim öğrencilerine yönelik kavramsallaştırılmıştır. Buna göre bilinçli kariyer farkındalığı, öğrencinin yargılamadan dikkatini mevcut deneyimlerine odaklayarak zihinsel olarak uyanık ve hazır olması yoluyla kariyeri için güncel mesleki gereklilikleri yerine getirebilme çabalarına ve bunun sonucundaki mesleki ihtisaslaşmasına yönelik bilinç düzeyi şeklinde tanımlanmıştır. Daha sonra kavram, turizm rehberliği lisans öğrencilerinin turist rehberliği kariyerleri bağlamında ölçülebilir hale getirilmiştir. Ölçeği geliştirmek için sadeleştirme, ayıklama ve uyumlaştırma yöntemleriyle literatür taramasından 22 ve içerik analizi ile nitel araştırma verilerinden 12 madde üretilmiştir. Nitel araştırma verileri, nitel form aracılığı ile 24 akademisyenden, 30 turist rehberinden ve 18 seyahat acentesi yöneticisinden toplanmıştır (n=62). Literatürden ve nitel araştırmadan üretilen maddeler karşılaştırılmış ve tekrar sadeleştirme sonucunda 28 maddelik genel bir havuz oluşturulmuştur. Ölçeğin kapsam geçerliği için görüşü istenen 25 uzmanın değerlendirmesi sonucunda 8 maddenin geçerli olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Son olarak, turizm rehberliği lisans öğrencilerinden (n=328) elde edilen veriler ile yapılan keşfedici faktör analizi ve güvenirlik analizleri sonuçlarına göre 8 maddelik ve tek boyutlu “Bilinçli Kariyer Farkındalığı Ölçeği (BKFÖ)” geliştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın sonunda ise araştırma sonuçlarına yönelik teorik ve pratik çıkarımlarda bulunulmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Bilinçli kariyer farkındalığı
• Mesleki farkındalık
• Turist rehberliği
• Lisans öğrencileri

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