Adaptive Vocational Personality Questionnaire: Development and Validation of an adaptive personality questionnaire to analyze the vocational behavior of university students

espanolEste estudio presenta el desarrollo y validacion de un instrumen-to para evaluar la personalidad adaptado al ambito vocacional: el cuestiona-rio de Personalidad Vocacional Adaptativa (CPVA). 2160 estudiantes uni-versitarios de los ultimos anos de carrera respondieron a la version prelimi-nar del cuestionario. Sus respuestas fueron sometidas a un conjunto de ana-lisis factoriales confirmatorios siguiendo un diseno de validacion cruzada: en la muestra exploratoria (n=879) identificamos el modelo que mejor ajus-taba los datos. Como esperabamos, el modelo presenta dos factores rela-cionados pero separados: Caracteristicas Adaptativas de personalidad (CA) con 9 items y Caracteristicas no Adaptativas de personalidad (CNA) con 11 items. En la muestra de validacion (n=932) comprobamos si ese modelo presentaba un buen ajuste a este nuevo conjunto de datos. Los resultados asi lo indicaron, apoyando la validez de esta estructura bifactorial. La fiabi-lidad de las dos escalas, CA y CNA es adecuada, asi como su capacidad pa-ra pronosticar el criterio empleado, conducta proactiva en la busqueda de trabajo. Este articulo incluye el cuestionario, las claves de correccion y los baremos necesarios para su uso. EnglishThis study presents a personality evaluation instrument adapted to the vocational setting: the Adaptive Vocational Personality Question-naire (AVPQ). The questionnaire was developed and tested in a sample of 2160 university students in the final years of their degree programs. The purpose of the study is to validate the questionnaire, providing evidence about its internal structure and its usefulness for predicting scores on a cri-terion scale. A confirmatory factor analysis combined with a cross-validation design was used: the exploratory sample (n = 879) helped to identify the model with the factorial structure that best fit the relations among the items. As expected, this model had two related but clearly sepa-rate factors: Adaptive Personality Characteristics (AC) with 9 items and Non-Adaptive Personality Characteristics (NAC) with 11 items. The valida-tion sample (n =932) was used to test the generalization capacity of this model, which was satisfactory and showed a good reliability index. Regard-ing its usefulness in predicting proactive job-search behaviors, the results were also satisfactory. The questionnaire and keys are provided, as well as the criteria for calculating the scores on each scale and on the entire ques-tionnaire.