Table 1.

Items of the Career-Success Scale (CSS), the item values, factor loadings, communalities and the item-total correlations

Item	Content	Item value	Factor loading	Communality	Item-total correlation rit
1	Lectures/Talks at conferences	none = 0	0.65	0.43	0.57
		1 to 3 = 1
		4 to 50 = 2
2	Publications	None = 0	0.71	0.50	0.61
		1 = 1
		2 to 3 = 2
		4 and more = 3
3	Collaboration in research project	no = 0, yes = 1	0.75	0.56	0.63
4	Months of research as principal activity	no = 0	0.75	0.56	0.54
		up to 9 months = 1
		10 and more months = 2
5	Scholarship awarded	no = 0, yes = 1	0.74	0.55	0.57
6	Competitively awarded third-party funds	no = 0, yes = 1	0.76	0.58	0.58
7	Research awards	no = 0, yes = 1	0.56	0.31	0.42
	Career-Success Scale (CSS)	range of sum score = 0 – 11	Cronbach's alpha	0.76