Purpose

Modern careers are marked by periods of feeling betwixt, or “in-between,” – yet, there is no validated measure of this experience, recognized as subjective liminality. The present research aims to (1) operationalize subjective liminality and (2) develop and validate a scale to measure it.

Design/methodology/approach

A literature review was used to operationalize subjective liminality, and the scale validation was performed using four separate samples: 150 workers on M-Turk, 151 graduate and professional students at a large Midwestern University, 252 unemployed individuals in the US and Canada, and 416 full-time employed individuals in the US.

Findings

Subjective liminality was conceptualized as a second-order latent construct reflected by three dimensions: feelings of anxiety, ambiguity and reduced group identification. A 9-item scale was developed and validated to measure it.

Originality/value

This study clarifies and measures an emergent construct in the career transition and organizational change literature.

中文翻译：

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衡量主观阈限的量表的开发和验证：中间性感知的个体差异

目的

现代职业生涯的特点是感觉介于两者之间或“介于两者之间”——然而，这种经历并没有经过验证的衡量标准，被认为是主观阈限。本研究的目的是（1）实施主观限制，以及（2）开发和验证衡量主观限制的量表。

设计/方法论/途径

使用文献综述来操作主观阈限，并使用四个单独的样本进行量表验证：M-Turk 的 150 名工人、一所大型中西部大学的 151 名研究生和专业学生、美国和加拿大的 252 名失业人员以及 416 名失业人员。美国的全职雇员。

发现

主观阈限被概念化为二阶潜在构造，由三个维度反映：焦虑感、模糊性和群体认同感降低。开发并验证了包含 9 项的量表来对其进行测量。

原创性/价值

这项研究澄清并衡量了职业转型和组织变革文献中的新兴结构。