Measuring engagement with green guidance: Validation of new instruments and a mediation model
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https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.5612Keywords:
Green guidance, Career guidance, Environment, Psychometric measure, ValidationAbstract
This article validates two new instruments which measure careers practitioners’ engagement with green guidance (GG) and their perception of clients’ attitudes towards GG. It builds on existing research focused on the relationship between career guidance and environmental/climate issues. It is a secondary inferential analysis of data collected within a practice-development project focused on the engagement with GG amongst 666 European practitioners. Findings support these measures’ validity, and suggest that practitioners’ attitudes towards GG are influenced by their attitudes towards climate change, in which their perception of their clients’ attitudes towards GG is a mediator. Implications for practice are discussed.
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