Avaliação do Autogerenciamento e do Direcionamento de Carreira: Estrutura Fatorial da Escala de Atitudes de Carreira Proteana

The concept of protean career describes a career style in which success is subjectively pondered, and can beachieved through a self-managed and values-oriented vocational behavior. The Protean Career Attitudes Scale (PCAS)aims to assess the self-management and the values orientation dimensions. The present study explored the factorialstructure of a Brazilian version of PCAS. Participants were 446 professionals from 15 Brazilian states. The finalversion of PCAS was composed of 11 items, their factor structure confirming the hypothesized dimensions.Reliability indexes were good or acceptable for the general scale (.83), and for the career self-management (.85) andvalues orientation subscales (.73). Comparison between groups showed men with significantly higher selfmanagementthan women. Moreover, private sector professionals had significantly higher levels of both selfmanagementand values orientation than government workers. Further comparative and correlational studies withcontemporary career attitudes are encouraged.