Journal article
The Development and Validation of a Scale Measuring Postgraduate School Application Self-Efficacy
Journal of career assessment, Vol.29(2), pp.319-337
05/01/2021
DOI: 10.1177/1069072720974408
Abstract
This study introduces a new construct to the literature that may impact students' entrance into postgraduate programs: postgraduate school application self-efficacy. Although previous scholars have explored the admissions processes for a variety of disciplines and have developed a measure for graduate education self-efficacy, no measure has been developed to assess postgraduate school application self-efficacy (PSASE). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop and validate a measure of 423 undergraduate students' PSASE. Parallel analyses, exploratory factor analyses, and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to determine the underlying factor structure of the PSASE scale. Reliability and correlational analyses were also conducted to assess convergent and discriminant validity. Results revealed a conceptually interpretable, 16-item, four-factor solution that accounted for 80.88% of the total variance. Correlational analyses with graduate education self-efficacy and self-esteem provided evidence of convergent and discriminant validity for the PSASE subscales. Implications and future directions were explored.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Development and Validation of a Scale Measuring Postgraduate School Application Self-Efficacy
- Creators
- Meaghan K. Rowe-Johnson - Aurora UniversityAlex Rice - Military Outcomes Cardiovascular Research (MiCOR), USU, Bethesda, MD, USASaba R. Ali - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of career assessment, Vol.29(2), pp.319-337
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- DOI
- 10.1177/1069072720974408
- ISSN
- 1069-0727
- eISSN
- 1552-4590
- Number of pages
- 19
- Grant note
- University of Iowa Graduate Student Research Award
- Comment
- Test development: Postgraduate School Application Self-Efficacy Scale (PSASE)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Education Administration; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984371077202771
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