THE HOSPITAL SOCIAL-WORK SELF-EFFICACY SCALE - A PARTIAL REPLICATION AND EXTENSION

The Hospital Social Work Self-Efficacy Scale (HSWSE) was developed to assess social workers' confidence about their ability to perform hospi tal social work. The scale was originally tested with master's-level s ocial work students. This partial replication and extension included b oth students and professional social workers. fn addition, we used a n ew scale to assess construct validity and added another hospital to as sess external validity. fn general, findings continue to support the w e of the HSWSE. fn addition, anecdotal evidence suggests that this is an outcome measure that practitioners see as easy to USE, specific, an d highly relevant.