英文摘要 |
The aim of this study was to construct a reliable and valid career hope scale for college students in Taiwan. The research also examined the measurement invariance of the scale for both genders, and for technological and general universities. The study sampled a total of 980 students from 18 universities across Taiwan's three geographical regions. The researchers adopted exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and multi-sample analysis for the collected data. The results showed: (1) Through exploratory analysis, the scale could be divided into three sub-scales: goal-certainty, goal-pathway and goal-will. (2) Through examination of a series of competing models, the collected data fitted to the second-order single factor model and this model reached a satisfactory level of internal consistency reliability. (3) This factor structure model was suitable for students of both genders, and from both universities of technology and general universities. The results of the study also showed that students of both genders and both types of university evaluated their own scale scores in the same manner. |