Construction, Validity and Reliability of Isfahan Vocational Pathology Inventory

The main purpose of the present study was to examine construct, validity and reliability of the Isfahan Career Pathology Inventory for the municipality personnel. Thus, an inventory was made, consisting three important categorizes of inter-personal, intra-personal, and meta-personal problems. These three categories were consisted of 18 sub-groups. A totle of 162 items were primarily administered on 47 personnel of Section 4 of the Isfahan municipality. Items with low correlation with scale were eliminated. Finally, 110 items remained. Then, the main form of this scale was rated by five specialists. Finally it was administered on 166 members of Isfahan municipality personnel (95 men and 71 women). Career Satisfaction Inventory (JDI), and Maslash Burnout Inventory were used as two external factors for identifying construct validity. The results showed that the permanents in these 18 subgroups were high and also the internal correlation among these three groups was between 0/78-0/80 which is meaningful. Furthermore, the results show that there was a meaningful correlation 0/35-0/54 between these three groups of career problems with emotional exhaustion of Maslash Burnout Inventory This show the convergent validity of Isfahan Career Problem Inventory. There was a negative significant correlation between three parts of Isfahan Career Problem Inventory. The total score of JDI job satisfaction show divergent validity for Isfahan Career Problem Inventory.