This study introduces a new construct to the literature that may impact students’ entrance into postgraduate programs: postgraduate school application self-efficacy. Although previous scholars have explored the admissions processes for a variety of disciplines and have developed a measure for graduate education self-efficacy, no measure has been developed to assess postgraduate school application self-efficacy (PSASE). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop and validate a measure of 423 undergraduate students’ PSASE. Parallel analyses, exploratory factor analyses, and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to determine the underlying factor structure of the PSASE scale. Reliability and correlational analyses were also conducted to assess convergent and discriminant validity. Results revealed a conceptually interpretable, 16-item, four-factor solution that accounted for 80.88% of the total variance. Correlational analyses with graduate education self-efficacy and self-esteem provided evidence of convergent and discriminant validity for the PSASE subscales. Implications and future directions were explored.

这项研究向文献介绍了一种可能会影响学生进入研究生课程的新结构：研究生院的应用自我效能感。尽管先前的学者已经探索了各种学科的录取过程，并且已经开发出一种用于研究生教育自我效能的衡量方法，但是还没有开发出评估研究生申请自我效能（PSASE）的方法。因此，本研究的目的是开发和验证423名大学生PSASE的方法。进行平行分析，探索性因素分析和确认性因素分析，以确定PSASE量表的潜在因素结构。还进行了可靠性和相关性分析，以评估收敛性和判别性有效性。结果显示，从概念上讲，这是16个项目，四因素解决方案占总方差的80.88％。与研究生教育自我效能感和自尊的相关分析为PSASE量表的收敛性和判别效度提供了证据。研究的意义和未来方向。