Work values are important factors in career counseling and development. The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance of Terada's (2009) Vocational Values Inventory, as well as compare the means of 5 latent variables across 4 nations (Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Germany) using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that the assumptions of configural, metric, and intercept invariance were satisfied across the 4 nations. A comparison of the means of the 5 latent variables indicated that job security, an extrinsic work value, was perceived as the most important work value across the 4 nations.

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四个国家的工作价值比较分析

工作价值观是职业咨询和发展中的重要因素。这项研究的目的是测试Terada（2009）职业价值清单的度量不变性，并使用结构方程模型比较4个国家（日本，韩国，美国和德国）的5个潜在变量的均值。结果表明，在四个国家中，配置不变，度量不变和截距不变的假设均得到满足。通过对5个潜在变量的均值进行比较，可以发现，工作安全性是一种外在的工作价值，被认为是四个国家中最重要的工作价值。