Psychometric Properties of the Intrapreneurial Self-Capital Scale in Malaysian University Students

Abstract

The Intrapreneurial Self-Capital Scale (ISCS) is a 28-item measure intended to measure individual resources used to manage career and life challenges. The Intrapreneurial Self-Capital (ISC) is a higher order construct composed of seven specific constructs: core self-evaluation, hardiness, resilience, creative self-efficacy, decisiveness, goal mastery, and vigilance. In the new research area of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development, ISC constitutes a promising core of resources to face the challenges of the 21st century. The aim of the current study was to determine the factor structure and psychometric properties (i.e., reliability and concurrent validity) of a Malaysian version of ISCS among university students. The self-report questionnaire was administered to 1491 university students in Sabah, Malaysia. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the latent structure of the Malaysian ISCS. The final indices of Goodness of Fit showed satisfactory fit to the data. The Cronbach's alpha of the Malaysian ISCS is 0.81. The Malaysian ISCS correlates with Career Adaptability r = 0.31 (p < 0.01) and with Life Project Reflexivity r = 0.44 (p < 0.01), thus showing an adequate concurrent validity evidence. The Malaysian ISCS provides a promising research area in psychology (both positive and sustainability). Malaysian parents, teachers and counselors can also use this tool for their development and intervention efforts.

Intrapreneurial Self-Capital and Connectedness to Nature within Organizations

“…Thus, more efforts should be made to expand the research regarding the mediation effect of ISC on connectedness to nature by recruiting different types of workers from different geographical areas in Italy. Foreign countries should be included in testing such a model in the future as well, since the ISC scale is becoming available in multiple languages [56].…”

Exploring the Role of Malaysian Student’s Intrapreneurial Self-Capital in the Relationship between Satisfaction with Life, Academic Performance, and Flourishing

“…In more recent studies, it showed that intrapreneurial self-capital was significantly associated with flourishing among Spanish employees [28]. Past studies are widely performed in the Western setting, but it is proven that the intrapreneurial self-capital is reliable to be applied among Malaysian youth, especially the undergraduates [29].…”

“…The measurement used in the current study consists of three parts: demographic information, The Intrapreneurial Self-Capital Scale (ISCS) [7] in the Malaysian version [29], the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) [30], and The Flourishing Scale (FS) [11]. The demographic information includes gender, age, religion, ethnicity and respondents' year of study and academic performance.…”

“…which required the score to be reversed before proceeding for further analysis. The original ISCS is in Italian and via an English version supplied by the authors [29] had done the back-to-back translation into Bahasa Malaysia which was used in the current study. The internal consistency reliability of the original Italian version of ISCS was Cronbach's alpha coefficient = 0.84 [7].…”

Intrapreneurial Self-Capital Mediates the Connectedness to Nature Effect on Well-Being at Work

“…Future research should address this issue by involving workers from different regions of Italy and lines of work. Our results should also be tested in other countries, especially given that the ISC measure is becoming available in multiple languages [24,44]. In this way, cross-cultural invariance of our results could also be tested.…”