Construction and Standardization of Career Motivation Scale in Malayalam

Every person in the workforce needs to be motivated by their career. Career motivation is the desire to work hard to accomplish one’s professional goals. According to the investigators’ initial enquiry, there is no appropriate instrument to measure career motivation for Malayalam knowing population. So, the present study aimed to develop an instrument to measure career motivation for Malayalam knowing people. For developing the instrument, data was collected from 152 working people from Kerala. The data were analyzed using t-test, factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis. A 15-item Career Motivation Scale in Malayalam has been developed as a result. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) resulted in three factor solution and these factors were named as “Career identity” (factor 1), “Career insight” (factor 2), and “Career resilience” (factor 3). The instrument was found to be valid and reliable. The Cronbach Alpha was found to be 0.684 for the career identity dimension, 0.816 for the career insight dimension, 0.774 for the career resilience and overall reliability of the scale was found to be 0.83. Correlating scores in the Motivation at Work Scale (Gagne et al., 2010) was used to estimate the scale’s external validity, which was found to be 0.74. The scale can be used to assess the working person’s career motivation. It can be used as a research instrument for the purpose of doing research in career motivation as well as a training instrument for career development programs.