General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES)
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Schwarzer
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Surpassing a taxing standard through sustained strenuous effort does not necessarily raise efficacy beliefs. Although for most people, high accomplishment strengthens beliefs of personal efficacy, many who drive themselves to hardwon success are left with selfdoubts that they…”
— Social Cognitive Theorymatch 58%
“Bogus physiological feedback that patients were effective relaxers raised beliefs in their efficacy to cope with their oral surgery (Litt, Nye, & Shafer, 1993). Selfefficacy enhancement surpassed relaxation and sedation drugs in reducing selfrated anxiety as well as anxiety…”
— Social Cognitive Theorymatch 57%
“Wellformulated selfefficacy scales focus on a psychological domain selected for study, and ideally measure people's beliefs in their capabilities to fulfill different levels of task demands within that domain. By measuring perceptions of selfefficacy across a wide range of task…”
— Social Cognitive Theorymatch 56%
Resources: Social Cognitive Theory