Dataset for "Employability Development in Undergraduate Programmes: How Different Is Liberal Arts Education?"

The dataset includes the following variables: - Study_year: Study year; - Study_programme: Study programme (1 = liberal arts; 0 = law); - Academic_sec_ed: type of secondary education (1 = academic secondary education; 0 = non-academic general or vocational/technical secondary education); - High_school_GPA_rank: high school GPA ranking compared to other students in graduating class (on a 5-point scale, ranging from 1 = much lower than the average to 5 = much higher than the average); - Gap_year: gap year after high school (1 = yes; 0 = no); - First_gen: first-generation university student (1 = yes; 0 = no); - Work_before_HE: non-study-related work experience before higher education (1 = one month or more; 0 = less than one month); - Work_during_HE: non-study-related work experience during higher education (1 = one month or more; 0 = less than one month); - AUT_fluency: fluency score on Guilford’s (1967) Alternate Uses Task, measured as the total number of acceptable uses across two objects (newspaper and umbrella); - LLL: Lifelong learning score, measured by Wielkiewicz and Meuwissen’s (2014) WielkLLS 5-point scale; - CD: Career decidedness score, measured by the 5-point Likert scale developed by Lounsbury et al. (2005); - SE: Self-efficacy score, measured by the 4-point General Self-Efficacy Scale (Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 1995); - RSL: Resilience score, measured by the 5-point Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008); - PI: Personal initiative score, measured by a shortened, 6-item version of Bledow and Frese's (2009) SJT-PI situational judgement test.