The Offender Job Search Self-Efficacy Scale: Development and Initial Validation

The purpose of this study was to develop the Offender Job Search Self-Efficacy Scale (OFJSSE) for the specific job search needs of the criminal justice population. Participants were 249 male inmates within 2 years of release from a state correctional facility in the southern region of the United Sta...

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Veröffentlicht in:Psychological services 2018-11, Vol.15 (4), p.477-485
Hauptverfasser: Varghese, Femina P., Anderson, Kendra M., Cummings, Devon L., Fitzgerald, Erica
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The purpose of this study was to develop the Offender Job Search Self-Efficacy Scale (OFJSSE) for the specific job search needs of the criminal justice population. Participants were 249 male inmates within 2 years of release from a state correctional facility in the southern region of the United States who identified mostly as Caucasian (56.2%), single (62.2%), working-class (45.4%) men with a mean age of 36.27 years (SD = 10.38). Initial validation data are described, including results of an exploratory factor analysis. Results indicated that the OFJSSE presents excellent reliability (α = .95) as well as good convergent and discriminant validity by having a strong, positive correlation, r = .73, p < .01, with another job search scale and having a negative correlation, r = −.19, p = .01, with a scale measuring a different construct (i.e., criminal thinking). Implications of the findings as well as limitations and future directions are discussed.
ISSN:1541-1559
1939-148X
DOI:10.1037/ser0000170