General self-efficacy is measured by a widely used parsimonious ten-item scale that was developed for use in several cultures. The present paper compares the verions that were examined in samples of 430 German, 959 Costa Rican, and 293 Chinese university students. The internal consistencies were .84, .81, and .91, respectively. The unidimensional nature of the scale was replicated in all samples. Multilingual item-pattern equivalence was only moderately supported by confirmatory factor analyses. Mean differences of sum scores between languages were found. Moreover, an interaction between gender and

L'auto-efficacite generale est mesurte grsce a une courte Cchelle composee de dix items. Son usage est tr&s rkpandu et elle a etC adaptee a plusieurs cultures. Cet article compare des versions qui ont CtC proposees 5 des etudiants: 430 Allemands, 952 Costariciens et 293 Chinois. Les validites internes sont respectivement de .84, .81 et .91. L'unidimensionnalite de I'Cchelle est reapparue dans tous les Cchantillons. L'equivalence items-modele interlinguistique ne fut que modCrCment approuve par des analyses factorielles de confirmation. On a trouvt des diffCrences au niveau des moyennes des scores totaux entre les langues. De plus, une interaction entre sexe et langue s'est manifestee. Des correlations avec la depression, I'anxiCt6 et I'optimisme ont fourni des dements complementaires en faveur de la validit6 de construction.General self-efficacy is measured by a widely used parsimonious ten-item scale that was developed for use in several cultures. The present paper compares the verions that were examined in samples of 430 German, 959 Costa Rican, and 293 Chinese university students. The internal consistencies were .84, .81, and .91, respectively. The unidimensional nature of the scale was replicated in all samples. Multilingual item-pattern equivalence was only moderately supported by confirmatory factor analyses. Mean differences of sum scores between languages were found. Moreover, an interaction between gender and

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