The general academic self-efficacy scale: psychometric properties, longitudinal invariance, and criterion validity
- Academic self-efficacy (ASE) refers to a student’s global belief in his/her ability to master the various academic challenges at university and is an essential antecedent of wellbeing and performance. The five-item General Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (GASE) showed promise as a short and concise measure for overall ASE. However, of its validity and reliability outside of Scandinavia is limited. Therefore, this paper aimed to investigate the psychometric properties, longitudinal invariance, and criterion validity of the GASE within a sample of university students (Time 1: n = 1056 & Time 2: n = 592) in the USA and Western Europe. The results showed that a unidimensional factorial model of overall ASE fitted the data well was reliable and invariant across time. Further, criterion validity was established by finding a positive relationship with task performance at different time stamps. Therefore, the GASE can be used as a valid and reliable measure for general ASE.
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| Author: | Llewellyn Ellardus van ZylORCiDGND, Jeff KlibertORCiD, Rebecca ShanklandORCiD, Eric See-ToORCiDGND, Sebastiaan RothmannORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-628881 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/07342829221097174 |
| ISSN: | 1557-5144 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of psychoeducational assessment |
| Publisher: | Sage |
| Place of publication: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/05/25 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/05/25 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/12/05 |
| Tag: | academic self-efficacy; longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis; longitudinal invariance; task performance; university students |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Page Number: | 13 |
| First Page: | 777 |
| Last Page: | 789 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 507172434 |
| Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften | |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
