ABSTRACT
In the context of workforce development, social transformation is imperative, particularly when dehumanisation in the labour market has become more rampant in global market economy. Most planning for workforce development success takes place as a top-down approach. In order to understand the missing link in current state of policy implementation and service delivery, bottom-up inquiry was sought to understand how low-income jobseekers view self-sufficiency (SS) from their own perspectives. This chapter explains a study which seeks to validate the Comprehensive Employment Hope scale (EHS-21) using a multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis (MSCFA). The study used two independent samples. Both samples were used for conducting the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Convergent validity evidence was gathered by measuring the correlation between two theoretically related measures, while discriminant validity evidence was gathered by correlating two theoretically unrelated measures. In order to test convergent validity, EHS-21 was hypothesised to be positively and strongly correlated with the New General Self-Efficacy and Economic Self-Sufficiency (ESS) Scale.
