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Confirmatory factor analysis of the General Self-Efficacy Scale
1Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Behaviour Research and Therapy
|June 27, 1998
Abstract:
A confirmatory factor analysis of the factor structure of the adapted General Self-Efficacy Scale, created by Sherer et al. (1982) [Psychological Reports, 51, 663-671], was conducted to assess whether the scale's purported 3 factors emerged. The results generally supported the 3-factor model, but a model with 3 correlated factors and one higher-order factor (general self-efficacy) proved to fit the data even better.