Psychometric properties of the African Career Interest Inventory in Ghana

Brandon Morgan; Enoch Teye-Kwadjo; Maxwell Asumeng; Stephan Rabie; Anthony V. Naidoo; Gideon P. de Bruin

doi:10.1007/s10775-021-09499-8

Psychometric properties of the African Career Interest Inventory in Ghana

Brandon Morgan, Enoch Teye-Kwadjo, Maxwell Asumeng, Stephan Rabie, Anthony V. Naidoo, Gideon P. de Bruin

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This study set out to investigate the psychometric properties of the African Career Interest Inventory (ACII) in Ghana. The ACII is an interest measure developed in South Africa that operationalises Holland’s model of vocational personality/interest types. We obtained 617 responses to the ACII from university students at a university in Ghana. Most of the items showed satisfactory fit to the Rasch model with only a few items showing poor fit. The ACII scale scores showed good reliability and the randomisation test of hypothesised order relations and covariance structure modelling supported circumplex structure of these scale scores. Implications for theory and practice are provided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	219-248
Number of pages	30
Journal	International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance
Volume	23
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-021-09499-8
Publication status	Published - Apr 2023

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Ghana
Holland
Vocational interests

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