Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, Vol 8(4), Dec 2022, 247-258; doi:10.1037/stl0000298
The Employable Skills Self-Efficacy Survey (ESSES; Ciarocco & Strohmetz, 2018) measures undergraduate psychology students’ employable skills self-efficacy. This study aimed to provide additional validity evidence for the ESSES by looking at its internal structure, reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity using a sample of 170 undergraduate students. A confirmatory factor analysis did not support the 11-factor structure but did show strict unidimensionality for 10 of the subscales when examined individually. There was evidence of convergent validity, but limited evidence of discriminant validity. Revisions are necessary before this scale should be used to measure the employable skills self-efficacy of undergraduate psychology students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)