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dc.contributor.authorAnselmi, Pasquale
dc.contributor.authorColledani, Daiana
dc.contributor.authorFabbris, Luigi
dc.contributor.authorRobusto, Egidio
dc.contributor.authorScioni, Manuela
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-15T20:05:50Z
dc.date.available2022-09-15T20:05:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220915_9788855184618_27
dc.identifier.issn2704-5846
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58231
dc.description.abstractPositive psychological capital (PsyCap) is the name given to a set of psychological dimensions (hope, resilience, self-efficacy, and optimism) that may support students in their effort to achieve better academic results and even improve the employability of graduates. These dimensions could help students to achieve better academic results and impact fresh graduates’ ability to stand the labour market in times of crisis. A scale, called Academic PsyCap, was specifically developed to evaluate the four PsyCap dimensions among students and fresh graduates. To deeply investigate the structural validity of the scale, three alternative models (one-factor model, correlated four-factor model, bifactor model) were run on the responses provided by about 1,600 fresh graduates at the University of Padua. The results indicated that the bifactor model fit the data better than the other two models. In this model, all items significantly loaded on both their own domain specific factor and on the general factor. The values of Percentage of Uncontaminated Correlations (PUC), Explained Common Variance (ECV), and Hierarchical Omega suggested that multidimensionality in the scale was not severe enough to disqualify the use of a total PsyCap score. The scale was found to be invariant across gender and academic degree (bachelor’s and master’s degree). Internal consistency indices were satisfactory for the four dimensions and the total scale.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProceedings e report
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBC Social research and statisticsen_US
dc.subject.otherAcademic PsyCap
dc.subject.otherFresh graduates
dc.subject.otherBifactor model
dc.subject.otherMeasurement invariance
dc.titleChapter Psychometric properties of a new scale for measuring academic positive psychological capital
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.06
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855184618
oapen.series.number132
oapen.pages6
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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