Adaptation of Social Entrepreneurship Competency Scale in Higher Education: A Scale Adaptation Study

Entrepreneurship is considered as an activity that includes the innovative perspective of individuals and organizations that play an important role in the development of societies by creating economic growth and employment in the society in which it operates. One of the types of entrepreneurship is social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is an approach that adopts free market-based methods in solving social problems. Social entrepreneurs are those that are established commercially but whose purpose is to solve social problems. In this study, an adaptation study of the relevant scale developed by Peris, Gomez, Puig and Bernardo (2020) into Turkish was carried out in order to determine the social entrepreneurship competencies of higher education students. The validity and reliability studies of the scale were carried out with the participation of 161 students studying in different departments, Vocational and Technical Sciences High School of a university. For the scope and appearance validity of the scale, 1 language specialist, 3 field specialists, 1 psychological counsel or, 1 assessment and evaluation specialist were consulted. EFA was used to serve structure validity. At the end of the study, a 6-dimensional scale consisting of 30 items explaining 74.31% of the total variance was obtained. The internal consistency coefficient of the scale calculated with Cronbach Alpha is .93. In the context of the confirmatory factor analysis, it was determined that the final compliance indices were within the desired limits.