Psychometric properties of a scale to measure social entrepreneurship competency in Mexican university students

IF 1.7 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Carolina Alcantar-Nieblas, Leonardo David Glasserman-Morales, José Carlos Vázquez-Parra
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Abstract

Purpose

The purposes of this study were to calculate the confirmatory factor analysis in the measurement model using robust measures (McDonald’s omega and Cronbach’s alpha) to ensure the reliability of the proposed scale and to explore the measurement invariance of the scale per the participants’ gender.

Design/methodology/approach

The methodological sample had 408 students from a private university in northern Mexico, of which 200 (49%) were male and 208 (51%) were female; the sample age range was 18–58 years (M = 22.4 years, SD = 6.0). The data analysis included descriptive and normality, dimensionality, reliability and measurement invariance.

Findings

The social entrepreneurship competency measurement model showed acceptable adjustment indexes in evaluating the internal structure, reliability and factorial invariance by gender of the study participants.

Research limitations/implications

Even though the contributions of this study are evident, these findings must be taken with caution due to some limitations. First, the proposed measurement model uses a self-reported scale, so it is essential to include other measurement methods with less implicit social desirability. Second, although the sample was intended to be representative, it only drew from a specific geographical area, making it difficult to generalize these findings to culturally diverse areas. Third, this study did not consider other validity measures; for example, concurrent, divergent and predictive, so future studies should consider examining the relationship of social entrepreneurship with other factors.

Practical implications

From the practical perspective, this study provides a parsimonious instrument regarding the number of items included in the measurement model. From the theoretical perspective, the present study contributes to delimiting the dimensions of social entrepreneurship competency.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the field of social entrepreneurship, particularly in the area of construct measurement, by offering a measurement model with solid evidence of internal structure validity, reliability and factorial invariance for the perceived achievement of social entrepreneurship competency.

衡量墨西哥大学生社会创业能力的量表的心理计量特性
本研究的目的是使用稳健测量(麦克唐纳欧米茄和克朗巴赫α)计算测量模型中的确认性因子分析,以确保拟议量表的可靠性,并探讨量表在参与者性别方面的测量不变性。研究方法样本来自墨西哥北部一所私立大学的 408 名学生,其中 200 名(49%)为男性,208 名(51%)为女性;样本年龄范围为 18-58 岁(M = 22.4 岁,SD = 6.0)。数据分析包括描述性和正态性、维度、信度和测量不变性。研究结果社会创业能力测量模型在评估研究参与者性别的内部结构、信度和因子不变性方面显示出可接受的调整指数。首先,所提出的测量模型使用的是自我报告量表,因此有必要纳入其他隐含社会期望值较低的测量方法。其次,尽管样本旨在具有代表性,但它只从特定的地理区域抽取样本,因此很难将这些研究结果推广到文化多样的地区。第三,本研究没有考虑其他效度测量,例如并发效度、发散效度和预测效度,因此未来的研究应考虑社会创业与其他因素的关系。原创性/价值本研究为社会创业能力的感知成就提供了一个内部结构效度、信度和因子不变量的测量模 型,从而为社会创业领域,尤其是建构测量领域做出了贡献。
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On the Horizon
On the Horizon EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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4.50
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期刊介绍: On the Horizon provides an insight into how the changing face of technology is making it possible for educational institutions to form new relationships across geographic and cultural boundaries.
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