TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting Civic Competencies Among East African Youth and Emerging Adults
T2 - Report on the Swahili General Self-Efficacy Scale
AU - Johnson, Laura R.
AU - Johnson-Pynn, Julie S.
AU - Drescher, Christopher
AU - Sackey, Enoch
AU - Assenga, Sophia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and SAGE Publications.
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - Self-efficacy has been examined around the world, with research indicating its importance for personal and civic development. The General Self-Efficacy Scale has been translated into 33 languages; however, no African language version has been well established, and research on self-efficacy in the region is rare. A measure of self-efficacy in Swahili, a language widely used in East Africa, could spur research. We describe the development of the Swahili General Self-Efficacy Scale and its psychometric properties with a large, diverse group of Tanzanian youth and emerging adults (N = 1,409, ages 13–26). We report psychometrics including internal consistency, factor structure, convergent reliability, and the ability of the measure to predict civic competencies. Our results establish the Swahili General Self-Efficacy Scale as a credible measure with implications for personal and civic development. We suggest areas for investigation and provide the Swahili scale as an impetus for research in the region.
AB - Self-efficacy has been examined around the world, with research indicating its importance for personal and civic development. The General Self-Efficacy Scale has been translated into 33 languages; however, no African language version has been well established, and research on self-efficacy in the region is rare. A measure of self-efficacy in Swahili, a language widely used in East Africa, could spur research. We describe the development of the Swahili General Self-Efficacy Scale and its psychometric properties with a large, diverse group of Tanzanian youth and emerging adults (N = 1,409, ages 13–26). We report psychometrics including internal consistency, factor structure, convergent reliability, and the ability of the measure to predict civic competencies. Our results establish the Swahili General Self-Efficacy Scale as a credible measure with implications for personal and civic development. We suggest areas for investigation and provide the Swahili scale as an impetus for research in the region.
KW - East Africa
KW - General Self-Efficacy Scale
KW - Swahili
KW - civic development
KW - psychometrics
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U2 - 10.1177/2167696818768083
DO - 10.1177/2167696818768083
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046685925
SN - 2167-6968
VL - 7
SP - 309
EP - 314
JO - Emerging Adulthood
JF - Emerging Adulthood
IS - 4
ER -