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Table 1. 
Analysis of Creativity, Pay and Working Condition Factors including, Factor Analysis, Aggregated 
Mean and Cronbach’s Alpha. 

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# This question was asked in the negative so the working score is reversed. 
* Mean value based on 7 point Likert scale. ‘1’ = ‘Strongly Disagree’ and ‘7’ = ‘Strongly Agree’. 
Cronbach’s alpha was conducted to validate the internal reliability of the items within these groupings. The 
first factor, labelled Creativity Occupational Selection, was loaded and the reliability alpha returned .764. The 
second creativity factor, Creativity Occupational Socialisation, scored .735. The third and fourth creativity factors, 
Creativity Job Satisfaction and Creativity Occupational Satisfaction, both yielded higher alpha scores, .863 and .845, 
respectively. Only one ‘pay’ item was asked in each of the four phases. Several items relating to working conditions 
were asked within each of the four phases. However, the alpha of grouping these items indicated unreliability. Thus, 
only one ‘working condition’ item from each phase, that deemed to capture best the extrinsic element of this 
dimension, is reported. Both the working condition and pay factors, across the four phases, are recorded in Table 1. 
However, the interpretation of the factors’ means yield interesting findings. 
Figure 2. 
Trends for Pay, Working Conditions & Creativity Factors across Four Phase Career Design