Reliability of self-employment intentions instrument among international students in Indonesian university

Mhd Subhan,Mas’Ud Zein,Abu Yazid Abu Bakar,Aida Hanim A Hamid1,Mohd Izwan Mahmud,Salleh Amat,Akhyar ,Sallehudin Ali,Mohd Hakimie Zainal Abidin

doi:10.14419/ijet.v7i2.10.10960

Abstract

This paper examines the validation instrument used to measure the psychometric status of the self-employment intentions. Self-employment intentions are crucial to identify the university students in order to confirm their decision making. They are a questionnaire to measure graduation in university to start choice on their careers. This instrument is composed of 11 items and was carried out to 115 international students studying in one Indonesian higher education. There were 49 male and 66 female respondents involved in this study. The Cronbach’s Alpha value was .94 which strongly suggest that the instrument has an excellent reliability. This study points out that self-employment intentions are suitable to be used by college personnel and counselors to examine and identify self-employment intentions among international students in Indonesian higher education. Implications for future study will also be discussed.

Highlights

The purpose of this study is to report the reliability of the Self-Employment Intentions Measure for international students studying in Indonesia
The self-employment intentions established by Ajzen and Fishbein [16], Kolvereid [17], Krueger [18], Chen, Green and Crick [19], Hassan [20], and Akmaliah and Hassan [13] is considered as a reliable and valid scale for the measurement of self-employment intentions among international students in Indonesian university
Principle component analysis produced a single component of self-employment intentions which is suitable with the single factor of self-employment intentions expanded by Ajzen and Fishbein [16], Kolvereid [17], Krueger [18], Chen, Green and Crick [19], Hassan [20] and Akmaliah and Hassan [13]

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Introduction

The Institutes of Higher Learning in Indonesia are producing an ever-increasing number of graduates every year. Reference BPS [2] reported students graduating from higher education institutes in Indonesia have been ioural control. Intention is determined by the attitude towards behavior, subjective norm, and perception of behavioural control [9]. The greater the perceived control, the attitude and subjective norm, the greater the individual’s intention to perform the behavior [10]. The increased in the numbers of the institute of higher learning may contribute to this scheme. Most of the measurement to examine self-employment intentions have been expanded and applied in the West [11].

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