“Quanta fiducia ho in me?”: Validazione di uno strumento per l’analisi delle credenze di efficacia a proposito della gestione delle decisioni scolastico-professionali.

Self-efficacy beliefs have a particularly important role in the analysis of the processes that are involved in choice. Low efficacy beliefs in one's own choice experiences are associated to poor professional exploration, high levels of school-career indecision and avoidance behaviors in relation to professional tasks. On this ground an instrument How much confidence do I have in myself? has been devised with the aim of collecting information on the efficacy beliefs held by 14- to 19-year-olds on their own decisional abilities and on their likelihood to persevere with the realization of particularly difficult or long lasting training activities. The psychometric requisites of the instrument have been verified especially through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses as concerns construct validity and, as concerns reliability, through the classic investigation methods as well as the Rasch models analysis. Results on concurrent and discriminant validity are presented too.