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ERIC Number: EJ1461261
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0141-8211
EISSN: EISSN-1465-3435
Available Date: 2024-11-10
Psychometric Evaluation of Perceived Internship PUA Scale: Using Rasch Analysis
Yanchao Yang1,2; Wangze Li3,4; Sijia Xue5; Wenxue Huang6; Shijie Guo7
European Journal of Education, v60 n1 e12832 2025
In response to the prevalence of perceived internship Pick-up Artist(PUA) behaviours and the lack of appropriate measurement tools, the purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new self-designed questionnaire, the Perceived Internship PUA Scale (PIPUAS), to assess college student interns' perceptions of internship PUA behaviours. The scale was developed based on interviews with college student interns. A sample of 340 college student interns from a provincial university in Hebei Province, China, participated in the study. Rasch analysis was used to examine the psychometric properties of the scale, including unidimensionality, monotonicity, item fit statistics, item polarity, item- and person-level reliability and separation, item hierarchy and measurement invariance across gender and birthplace. The results indicated that the PIPUAS is a unidimensional construct with good psychometric properties, although some issues need to be addressed to further improve the scale. The study's limitations and directions for future research were discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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Author Affiliations: 1Institute of International Language Services Studies, Macau Millennium College, Macau SAR, People's Republic of China; 2Qinggong College, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China; 3College of Materials Science and Engineering, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China; 4Graduate School- Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas, Batangas City, Philippines; 5School of Languages and Literatures, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, Shangdong Province, People?s Republic of China; 6School of Marxism, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, People's Republic of China; 7Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R., S.A.R, People's Republic of China