Development of career maturity questionnaire for nursing students

Objective To develop the career maturity questionnaire for nursing students,and to test its reliability and validity.Methods The original questionnaire was developed by interview,experts consulting and literature review methods.Totally 438 nursing students were investigated in order to systematically analyze the reliability and validity of the questionnaire.Results The results of statistical analysis indicated that the career maturity questionnaire for nursing students had seven factors including career identity,coping with career frustration,career destination,career self-adjustment,career consulting,career self-determination and career value,there were totally 29 items,56.6% total variance explained.The reliability index of Cronbach's α,Guttman split-half and test-retest were 0.862,0.824 and 0.752 respectively.The validity index of self-acceptance questionnaire and general self-efficiency scale were 0.369 and 0.385 respectively.Conclusion The career maturity questionnaire for nursing students has good reliability and validity.It is an assessment tool for the level of career development of nursing students.