How to Promote the Employability Capital of University Students? Developing and Validating Scales

Autor/inn/en	Caballero, Gloria; Álvarez-González, Paula; López-Miguens, María Jesús
Titel	How to Promote the Employability Capital of University Students? Developing and Validating Scales
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 45 (2020) 12, S.2634-2652 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Caballero, Gloria) ORCID (Álvarez-González, Paula) ORCID (López-Miguens, María Jesús)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2020.1807494
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Graduate Students; Test Construction; Test Validity; Human Capital; Social Capital; Social Networks; Cultural Capital; Academic Achievement; Job Skills; Aspiration; Self Efficacy; Job Search Methods; Foreign Countries; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Testaufbau; Testvalidität; Humankapital; Sozialkapital; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Schulleistung; Produktive Fertigkeit; Streben; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Arbeitsplatzsuchtheorie; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	One of the challenges that today's universities face is to ensure that their graduates find employment in line with their attributes. University students' employability capital depends on many personal factors in individuals such as human capital, social capital, cultural capital and psychological capital. However, there is no consensus on how to measure employability capital, and the scales developed to date have not been properly validated. The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate, at the confirmatory level, a set of instruments for measuring the factors of employability capital of university students. We conduct three studies based on three samples of 816, 1,082, and 1,088 students. These studies show the structure of the scales resulting from checking content validity, dimensionality, and reliability, as well as convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity. Moreover, the results show that psychological capital is the most relevant of employability capital followed by social capital, cultural capital and human capital. (As Provided).
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