My colleagues and I are studying antecedents of pre-career salary expectations among university students and we need a valid but brief measure that assesses the relative importance of work as a life domain. The Life Role Inventory (Nevill & Super) is too long and the Life-Role Salience Scale (Amatea et al., 1986) is ill-suited to college students. I cannot locate the work centrality measure validated by Paullay et al (1994). Suggestions are appreciated.
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Please find attached below thesis work of Bryan (2009); Scale by Paullay et al (1994) available as an Appendix F (p.92) in this thesis.
You can also look forward to conceptualization as stated by Greenhaus (1971) in context to Career Salience (perceived importance of work and career) however, its long 28-item scale measuring three components.
Some of the researchers have distinguished career salience from work salience as well (Allen, S., & Ortlepp, K. (2002). Conceptualising and operationalising work versus career salience. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 28(2).
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Ridhi Arora
For a different perspective, it may be worth considering the recent work by Ryan Duffy and Bryan Dik who have conducted solid conceptual and empirical research into the notion of calling. Their approach to calling is wider than the religious notion (although it can cover this form of calling too). One may speculate that the presence of or search for a calling influences salary expectations. My suggestion to you is a departure from the notion of salience as conceived of by Super et al., but I hope it provides an additional point of view for you. Here are some papers that may be of interest:
Dik, Bryan J., & Duffy, Ryan D. (2009). Calling and vocation at work: Definitions and prospects for research and practice. The Counseling Psychologist, 37(3), 424-450. doi: 10.1177/0011000008316430
Dik, Bryan J., Eldridge, Brandy M., Steger, Michael F., & Duffy, Ryan D. (2012). Development and validation of the Calling and Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) and Brief Calling Scale (BCS). Journal of Career Assessment, 20(3), 242-263. doi: 10.1177/1069072711434410
All the best for your research project
Peter
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