UNEMPLOYMENT ANXIETY SCALE – CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION

Abstract

This study explores the prevalence and impact of unemployment anxiety among final-year undergraduate students in arts and science colleges. Many of these students have increased anxieties about their employment prospects in an increasingly competitive job market as they approach the end of their academic journey. The authors developed the unemployment anxiety scale (2024), which was operationalized on four significant dimensions of unemployment anxiety. A panel of four experts in the field of employment officer, educational educator, and assistant professor established the scale’s content validity, and the pilot study was conducted among the undergraduates of arts and sciences colleges in the Tenkasi district. The validity and reliability of the tool were established in addition to the internal consistency. The split half of the tool is 0.822. The tool thus developed to evaluate unemployment anxiety is named HeWi’s Unemployment Anxiety Scale.

Keywords

unemployment anxiety, skills and qualifications, self-confidence level, psychological well-being.

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To cite this article

Hemalatha, K. & William Dharma Raja, B. (2024). Unemployment Anxiety Scale – Construction and Validation. Sparkling International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Studies, 7(3), 7-13.