Development of the Japanese version of career crafting assessment scale

The purposes of this research were to (1) examine the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Career Crafting Assessment Scale (CCA) and (2) assess the measurement invariance across different culture groups.A study was conducted for each objective.Reliability and validity were examined in Study 1, and the results support the same factor structure as the original scale.Cronbach's alpha and higher-order omega were also sufficiently high, and the results showed medium to strong correlations with related constructs, including protean career attitudes, job crafting, and subjective career success.Study 2 examined measurement invariance across Japanese and Anglo samples of the CCA, with the results supporting scalar (strong) invariance between the two samples.These results show that the Japanese version of the CCA has sufficient reliability and validity and is measurement-invariant across Japanese (Confucian Asian) and Anglo samples.