Scale Development and Scale Testing of Student’s Entrepreneur Self-Efficacy (SES): Preliminary Psychometric Test

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  • Ankita Barik Department of Research Scholar, Faculty of Management, Pacific Academy of Higher Education & Research University, Rajasthan, India
  • Lalbihari Barik Asst. Prof., Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology in Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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https://doi.org/10.21015/vtess.v9i1.440

Abstract

Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy is the degree to which people perceive themselves as having the ability to perform the various roles and tasks of entrepreneurship successfully. This paper aims to develop and validate the scale to measure commerce and management graduates student’s Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy. We have used various validation techniques like face validity, logical validity, construct validity, criterion and discriminate validity to make our questioner standard.  The factor analysis is used to handle the factors in the constructed scale. With the use of reliability of scale and factors analysis, the six factors present in the scale are finalized. The six factors are developed here are as a Product (13 Questions), Build innovative environment (5 Questions), Investor relationship (13 Questions), Define core purpose (07 Questions), Handle unexpected challenges (21 Questions), and Develop HR (15 Questions). We have made the Questionnaire of 74 questions and then validate it to test the Student’s Entrepreneur Self-Efficacy among commerce and management graduates.

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2016-01-22

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Barik, A., & Barik, L. (2016). Scale Development and Scale Testing of Student’s Entrepreneur Self-Efficacy (SES): Preliminary Psychometric Test. VFAST Transactions on Education and Social Sciences, 4(1), 25–32. https://doi.org/10.21015/vtess.v9i1.440

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016): January-December

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