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Intrapreneurial Self‐Capital: A New Construct for the 21st Century
Author(s) -
Di Fabio Annamaria
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2014.00045.x
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , psychology , psychological resilience , confirmatory factor analysis , social psychology , scale (ratio) , construct validity , capital (architecture) , empirical research , structural equation modeling , psychometrics , developmental psychology , computer science , mathematics , statistics , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , machine learning , history , programming language
This article presents a new career construct, intrapreneurial self‐capital, and provides empirical evidence to verify it. Intrapreneurial self‐capital is defined as a core of individual intrapreneurial resources used to cope with career and life construction challenges and includes dimensions of core self‐evaluation, hardiness, creative self‐efficacy, resilience, goal mastery, decisiveness, and vigilance. The Intrapreneurial Self‐Capital Scale was developed to measure this new construct. It was administered to 171 Italian high school students, and confirmatory factor analysis supported the existence of the construct and its dimensions. Intrapreneurial self‐capital is a construct that will be useful for further research as well as for use in career interventions.