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Validation of the Employment Hope Scale: Measuring Psychological Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Jobseekers
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Hong, Philip Young P.; Polanin, Joshua R.; Pigott, Therese D. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objectives: The Employment Hope scale (EHS) was designed to measure the empowerment-based self-sufficiency (SS) outcome among low-income job-seeking clients. This measure captures the psychological SS dimension as opposed to the more commonly used economic SS in workforce development and employment support practice. The study validates the EHS and…
Descriptors: Employment, Low Income, Construct Validity, Validity