Community Service Self-Efficacy Scale: Convergent and Discriminant Validity

Self‐Efficacy in Service‐Learning Community Action Research: Theory, Research, and Practice

“…For each of the three studies published by Reeb et al (1998), coefficient alpha was well over .90 for the CSSES for undergraduate service-learning students, demonstrating internal consistency for the instrument. This finding was replicated in two studies reported in a publication by Reeb (2006a), and it was replicated (coefficient alpha = .95) in previously unpublished studies of 272 undergraduates (Reeb et al 2009b) and 85 undergraduates (Reeb et al 2009b). In one of three studies reported by Reeb (2006a), which focused on African American adolescents with conduct problems, coefficient alpha closely approached .90.…”

“…Thus, our nomological network predicts that the community service self-efficacy construct is inversely related to the construct of alienation. In support of this hypothesis, studies reported by Reeb et al (2009b) found that, after controlling for social desirability effects, the CSSES was inversely correlated with the Dean Alienation Scale (N = 608, pr = -14, p \ .01), the Powerlessness Scale (Neal and Groat 1974; N = 121, pr = -37, p \ .001), the Anomia Scale (Srole 1956; N = 121, pr = -.29, p \ .01), and the Alienation Scale (Maddi et al 1979; N = 121, pr = -.23, p \ .05).…”

“…community service) generally viewed with favor in our culture, selfefficacy in this particular area may represent one of several sources of information contributing to self-esteem, and the nomological network for the community service selfefficacy construct hypothesizes a small to moderate relationship with the construct of self-esteem. This hypothesis was supported by the aforementioned study of 608 undergraduates by Reeb et al (2009b); that is, after statistically controlling for the effects of social desirability, the correlation coefficient between the CSSES and the Rosenberg (1965) Self-Esteem Scale (i.e., a commonly-used measure of self-esteem) was statistically significant and smallto-moderate in magnitude (pr = .17, p \ .01).…”

“…Thus, in our developing nomological network for the community service self-efficacy construct, civic behavioral intention is hypothesized as an interrelated construct. In support of this hypothesis, a previously unpublished study (Reeb et al 2009b) of undergraduate students (N = 608) found that the Civic Action Scale (Moely et al 2002)-a measure of ''intentions to become involved in the future in some community service or action''-correlated with the CSSES (pr = .65, p \ .001), after partialling out effects of social desirability.…”

“…Further, given that ''hope agency'' denotes a ''sense of successful determination in meeting goals in the past, present, and future'' (Snyder et al 1991a, p. 570), this aspect of hope is particularly relevant to self-efficacy. In a previously unpublished study of 608 undergraduate students, Reeb et al (2009b) found that, after partialling out variance associated with social desirability, the CSSES correlated with the Hope Scale Total Score (pr = .27, p \ .001), Hope Scale Agency Score (pr = .35, p \ .001), and Hope Scale Pathways Score (pr = .13, p \ .01).…”