2009 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 106-116
The purpose of this study was to develop the Self-Efficacy Scales about Manual Skilled Activities (SESA) among Occupational Therapy (OT) students. The validity and the standardization which represented the nature of data of previously developed SESA by authors were examined and then the relationship between past experiences towards the activities within the SESA and self-efficacy were addressed for the purpose of the study. Participants were 303 OT students. There were four following procedures in order to decide the final activities in the SESA; 1) clarifying the distribution of responses among the participants for standardization of the SESA, 2) examining the criterion-related validity based on the General-Self Efficacy Scales (GSES), 3) examining the construct based on factor analysis of the SESA, and 4) clarifying the relationship between the degree of past experiences, the SESA and the GSES. As a result, three stable factor structures were confirmed within the SESA and each factor was named. The fifteen out of twenty-one activities were adopted for the final activities of the SESA based on the results from the second and the fourth procedures. It was selected that the only limited woman's activities in the SESA while there were needed for the special consideration from the distribution of responses among the participants.
