The 15-item Positive Career Goal Discrepancy Scale was developed to assess emerging adults’ appraisals of the extent to which their current career progress exceeds their set career goals. We generated 32 items based on a literature review, focus groups, and expert reviews, used EFA (N = 244, M _age 18.7 years; 65% women) to reduce the number of items, and CFA (N = 254, M _age 18.7 years; 68% women) to confirm the factor structure and demonstrate superior reliability at the total score level (ω reliability = .91). Validity testing demonstrated that the scale was distinct from a measure of negative career goal discrepancy and related, as expected, to constructs in the nomological net: correlated positively with career satisfaction and optimism, and negatively with negative career goal discrepancy. The scale is a useful addition to the career literature and is likely to stimulate research into positive career goal progress in young people.

制定了15个项目的积极职业目标差异量表，以评估新兴成年人当前职业发展超出其既定职业目标的程度的评估。我们根据文献综述，焦点小组和专家评论生成了32个项目，使用了EFA（N = 244，M _年龄18.7岁； 65％的女性）来减少项目数量，并使用了CFA（N = 254，M _年龄18.7年；68％的女性）确定因素结构并在总分水平上表现出出色的可靠性（ω可靠性= 0.91）。有效性测试表明，该量表与否定职业目标差异的度量方法不同，并且与预期的法理网络相关：与职业满意度和乐观度呈正相关，与职业目标差异负相关。该量表是职业文献的有用补充，可能会刺激年轻人对积极的职业目标进展的研究。