THE UTILITY OF THE RESEARCH SELF-EFFICACY SCALE

The Research Self-Efficacy Scale (RSES; Greeley, et al., 1989) was com pleted by 177 doctoral students from a wide variety of disciplines. Fa ctor analysis of the RSES indicated four primary factors: Conceptualiz ation, Early Tasks, Presenting the Results, and Implementation. Hierar chical regression analyses focused on 136 subjects from the original s ample and indicated that three subscales of the RSES (Early Tasks, Con ceptualization, and Implementation) accounted for unique variance in t he prediction of interest in research involvement. The number of years in graduate school and involvement in research activities contributed significantly to the prediction of research self-efficacy.