Emotional self‐efficacy, graduate employability, and career satisfaction: Testing the associations

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Figure 1. Final structural equation model linking emotional self‐efficacy and employability variables to career satisfaction and success.

Note. ESES1 = using and managing own emotions; ESES2 = identifying and understanding own emotions; ESES3 = dealing with emotions in others; ESES4 = perceiving emotion through facial expressions and body language; Emp. 1–Emp. 11 = Self‐perceived Employability Scale (Rothwell & Arnold, 2007); Emp. 12–Emp. 16 = Measure of Perceived Employability (Berntson & Marklund, 2007); Emp. 17–Emp. 19 = Perceived Employability Scale (De Vos & Soens, 2008); CS1–CS3 = Career Satisfaction Scale (De Vos & Soens, 2008).

Table 1. Descriptive statistics, intercorrelations, and reliability coefficients (Cronbach's alpha) for the study variables

	M	Standard deviation	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. ESES (1)	36.44	7.20	0.92
2. ESES (2)	23.61	4.01	0.69**	0.90
3. ESES (3)	30.02	5.09	0.73**	0.74**	0.89
4. ESES (4)	11.35	2.51	0.67**	0.70**	0.70**	0.86
5. Employability (1)	14.83	2.73	0.35**	0.16**	0.28**	0.22**	0.67
6. Employability (2)	24.86	4.05	0.34**	0.22**	0.31**	0.25**	0.54**	0.74
7. Employability (3)	17.10	3.52	0.42**	0.22**	0.32**	0.26**	0.62**	0.69**	0.78
8. Employability (4)	9.78	2.49	0.40**	0.27**	0.32**	0.25**	0.50**	0.73**	0.68**	0.82
9. Career Satisfaction	10.28	3.10	0.30**	0.18**	0.20**	0.16**	0.50**	0.39**	0.51**	0.45**	.86

Note. Alphas are on the diagonal. Table-1 does not include item information for ESES, employability and career satisfaction; these items form the indicator variables of the latent constructs in the SEM. Should the reader want information about correlations between items of the latent constructs, these details are available from the authors upon request. ESES (1) = using and managing own emotions; ESES (2) = identifying and understanding own emotions; ESES (3) = dealing with emotions in others; ESES (4) = perceiving emotion through facial expressions and body language; Employability (1) = Rothwell and Arnold (internal employability); Employability (2) = Rothwell and Arnold (external employability); Employability (3) = Berntson and Marklund; Employability (4) = De Vos and Soens; Career satisfaction = De Vos and Soens.

**p < .01.

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