A Multisample Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14)
- Authors
- Hong, Philip Young P.; Choi, Sangmi; Polanin, Joshua R.
- Issue Date
- 27-May-2014
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- workforce development; Employment hope; empowerment; psychological self-sufficiency; transformation
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SERVICE RESEARCH, v.40, no.3, pp.339 - 352
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SERVICE RESEARCH
- Volume
- 40
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 339
- End Page
- 352
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/10048
- DOI
- 10.1080/01488376.2014.901277
- ISSN
- 0148-8376
- Abstract
- ABSTRACT. Employment hope is an aspect of psychological self-sufficiency that captures the process of empowerment for low-income job seekers. It is posited that this process of maintaining and developing employment hope contributes to the economic self-sufficiency outcome. The preliminary 14-item 2-factor Employment Hope Scale (EHS) was previously developed using an exploratory factor analysis (Hong, Polanin, & Pigott, 2012). This study examines whether the same items could be validated using a multisample confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Given the unsatisfied model fit of the original 2-factor model, it was modified into a 4-factor model guided by theoretical suggestion from an earlier focus-group study. The multisample CFA on the modified model explained the data significantly better than did the initial model across 2 independent samples. Reliability and validity tests confirmed the factor structure of the modified model. This study confirms that the revalidated Short EHS (EHS-14) is a more robust version of the scale. Further research is needed to demonstrate its utility as a tool to benchmark the pre-employment client empowerment process in workforce development and to monitor postemployment employee support needs in the workplace for retention.
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