Article Developing and Validating Short Form Protean and Boundaryless Career

The Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes scales developed by Briscoe and colleagues have facilitated research on career attitudes and mindsets, but they are unnecessarily lengthy and somewhat redundant in their content. To address these concerns, this article presents three stud-ies that develop and validate short forms of the Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes scales (i.e., PCA-SF and BCA-SF). Study findings suggest that the PCA-SF and BCA-SF provide a more efficient assessment of the protean and boundaryless career attitudes constructs than the full-length measures and exhibit partial measurement equivalence across U.S. and Korean populations. Keywords protean career attitudes, boundaryless career attitudes, scale refinement, measurement equiva-lence, personality, organizational commitment, career satisfaction The traditional organizational career, where an individual proceeds linearly up the hierarchy of one or two organizations in order to achieve extrinsic rewards, is often contrasted with alternative career arrangements such as protean and/or boundaryless career approaches (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996; Hall, 2002; Sullivan & Baruch, 2009). Both protean and boundaryless career approaches are char