scholarly journals An item selection procedure to maximise scale reliability and validity

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Raubenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
Item Selection ◽  
Selection Strategy ◽  
Religious Orientation Scale ◽  
Orientation Scale

Wille (1996) proposed an item selection strategy which may be used to maximise, first, the internal consistency and, next, the convergent and discriminant validity of items in multi-dimensional Likert-type questionnaires or scales. In terms of his strategy, the latter aspects of validity are maximised by means of exploratory factor analyses. In this article, it is done by means of Tateneni, Mels, Cudeck and Browne’s (2001) Comprehensive Exploratory Factor Analysis (CEFA) program which implements exploratory factor analysis, but provides the advantages of standard confirmatory factor analysis (e.g., the computation of the standard errors of the rotated factor loadings and measures of “model" fit). The benefits that accrue by using this incremental approach are demonstrated in terms of Allport and Ross’ (1967) Religious Orientation Scale, a widely-used psychological instrument. Opsomming Wille (1996) het ’n itemseleksiestrategie voorgestel om eerstens die interne konsekwentheid, en tweedens die konvergente en divergente geldigheid van items in multidimensionele Likert-tipe vraelyste of skale te maksimeer. Volgens sy strategie word laasgenoemde aspekte van geldigheid deur middel van eksploratiewe faktorontledings gemaksimeer. In hierdie artikel, sal dit gedoen word deur Tateneni, Mels, Cudeck en Browne (2001) se program vir Omvattende Eksploratiewe Faktorontleding (CEFA) te gebruik, wat eksploratiewe faktorontleding aanwend, maar ook die voordele van gewone, bevestigende faktorontleding (bv., die berekening van die standaardfoute van die geroteerde faktorbeladings en indekse van modelpassing) bied. Die voordele wat spruit uit die toepassing van hierdie inkrementele benadering word gedemonstreer aan die hand van Allport en Ross (1967) se Religious Orientation Scale, ’n gewilde sielkundige meetintrument.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Orientasi Religius, Hardiness, dan Quality of Friendship Terhadap Kebahagiaan Santri

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Noor Uyun Nadhifah ◽  
Zulfa Indira Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
Emotional Security ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Religious Orientation Scale ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
Oxford Happiness Inventory

AbstractHappiness is a life’s goal for everyone. It also has an important role in the educational environment, especially for individuals who live in boarding schools. Happiness could escalate student’s motivation especially in learning and indirectly influence student’s activities while staying in boarding schools. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are influences from religious orientation (intrinsic and extrinsic), hardiness (commitment, control, and challenge), and quality of friendship (stimulating companionship, help, intimacy, reliable alliance, self validation, and emotional security) towards the happiness of santri. This research involved 240 students from boarding schools in Bandung. The sampling technique used in this study is non probability sampling. The questionnaires for measuring happiness using OHI (Oxford Happiness Inventory), religious orientation using ROS (Religious Orientation Scale), hardiness using hardiness scale (how hardy are you?), and quality of friendship using MFQ FF (Mcgrill Friendship Questionnaire - Friend’s Functions). Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to test the validity of each item in the questionnaire from LISREL8.7 software. While statistical testing using multiple regression analysis of SPSS 17 software. Based on the results of the data analysis, there was a significant influence of religious orientation, hardiness, and quality of friendship on students' happiness. AbstrakKebahagiaan merupakan tujuan hidup bagi semua orang. Kebahagiaan juga memiliki peran penting dalam lingkungan pendidikan khususnya bagi individu yang tinggal di pondok pesantren. Dengan adanya kebahagiaan dapat meningkatkan motivasi belajar dan secara tidak langsung dapat mempengaruhi aktivitas yang dilakukan oleh para santri selama berada di pondok pesantren. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada pengaruh dari orientasi religius (intrinsik dan ekstrinsik), hardiness (commitment, control, dan challenge), dan quality of friendship (stimulating companionship, help, intimacy, reliable alliance, self validation, dan emotional security) terhadap kebahagiaan santri. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada 240 santri pondok pesantren modern di Bandung. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah non probability sampling. Untuk alat ukur kebahagiaan menggunakan OHI (Oxford Happiness Inventory), orientasi religius menggunakan ROS (Religious Orientation Scale), hardiness menggunakan hardiness scale (how hardy are you?), dan quality of friendship menggunakan MFQ FF (Mcgrill Friendship Questionnaire - Friend’s Functions). Uji validitas alat ukur menggunakan teknik Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) dengan bantuan software LISREL8.7. Sedangkan analisis data menggunakan teknik analisis regresi berganda dengan bantuan software SPSS 17. Berdasarkan hasil analisis data, diperoleh kesimpulan penelitian ada pengaruh yang signifikan orientasi religius, hardiness, dan quality of friendship terhadap kebahagiaan santri.

Personal Religious Orientation and Frankl's Will-To-Meaning in Four Religious Communities

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 50-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Stones
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Life Test ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Religious Orientation Scale ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
Purpose In Life Test

Numerous theorists argue that the anomie characteristic of contemporary mass-society results in a lack of meaning and personal identity and that membership of small religious communities serves to relieve, if not eliminate, this existential vacuum. In order to explore this area further, four religious communities in Johannesburg — the Jesus People, the Hare Krishna Devotees, the Maharaj Ji Premies and a Catholic Priest community — were given the Purpose-in-Life test together with its complementary scale (Seeking-of-Noetic- Goals Test) as well as the Religious Orientation Scale. Analysis of the data confirmed the hypotheses that as a function of integration into any one of these groups individuals' lives take on greater meaning and purpose and that the motivation to seek meaning decreases. The results also indicate that members' personal religious orientations become more intrinsic.

scholarly journals A Scripture-Specific Religious Orientation Scale: Development and Validation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 01-13
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Khodadady
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Principal Axis ◽  
Scale Development And Validation ◽  
Religious Orientation Scale ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
Principal Axis Factoring ◽  
Specific Species ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Selection Of

Objectives: to develop a novel religious orientation scale based on the Quran and validate it with pre-university students of secondary education Method: All the Quranic ayat which addressed its believers directly regarding their religious orientation were scrutinized in terms of pre-university students’ characteristics, resulting in the selection of 57 upon which a 60-item Quranic Orientation Scale (QOS) was developed. The scale was administered to 1123 students and their responses were subjected to Principal Axis Factoring and Promax with Kaiser Normalization (PKN). Results: Out of 60 items comprising the QOS, 48 loaded acceptably and exclusively on seven rotated factors called believing in holy scriptures,, remembering and seeking Allah, fulfilling Quranic obligations, following Allah confidently, following Quranic instructions, not befriending disbelievers, and informed Quranic struggle. Both the scale and its underlying factors had internal consistency and correlated significantly with each other. Conclusion: The Quran teaches the domain of religious orientation directly to its readers as a hierarchically and culturally independent schema consisting of specific species and genera. Pre-university student, however, not only reduce the domain as regards the number of its constituting species and genera but also develop their own religious families. Going through this process consciously they render their religious orientation a hierarchically and culturally organized schema.

scholarly journals Reliability and validity evaluation of the chinese version of the ethical sensitivity questionnaire for nursing students

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Yu ◽  
Tong Tong ◽  
Ye Gao ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Huijuan Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Ethical Sensitivity ◽  
Alpha Coefficient ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Cronbach Alpha Coefficient ◽  
Total Correlation

Abstract Background Advances in technology and the expansion of nursing roles have led to complex ethical issues in nursing. Nursing students are the future clinical nursing workers and practitioners. The ethical sensitivity of nursing students is very important to the professional development of nursing students, which can strengthen the ethical cognition of nursing students, improve the ethical decision-making ability of nursing students, and is beneficial to the development of nursing students in the process of clinical practice and nursing education. However, there are no instruments to evaluate the ethical sensitivity of nursing students in China. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the Ethical Sensitivity Questionnaire for Nursing Students (ESQ-NS). Methods After obtaining the authorization of the author of the original scale, the study used the Brislin back-translation method for translation. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed to examine the underlying factor structure of the translated questionnaire. The Cronbach alpha coefficient, the test-retest reliability, and the corrected item-total correlation were calculated to verify the internal consistency of the scale. Results The Chinese version of ESQ-NS retained 13 items. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) extracts four common factors, and the cumulative variance contribution rate is 62.479%. The CFA reached the adaptive standard, and the discriminant validity of the scale was good. The Cronbach alpha coefficient of this scale was 0.821, and 4 dimensions were between 0.708 and 0.738. The results of the test-retest showed that Pearson’s correlation coefficient of the overall ESQ-NS was 0.814. Corrected item-total correlation ranged from 0.337 to 0.542. Conclusions The Chinese version of the ESQ-NS has good reliability and validity, which can be used to evaluate the level of ethical sensitivity of nursing students in China.

Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Diagnostic Interview for Depressive Personality

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 582-590
Author(s):  
L.J. Irastorza ◽  
P. Rojano ◽  
T. Gonzalez-Salvador ◽  
J. Cotobal ◽  
M. Leira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Area Under The Curve ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Cutoff Point ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Depressive Personality

AbstractThe aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Spanish-language version of the Diagnostic Interview for Depressive Personality (DIDP). The DIDP was administered to 328 consecutive outpatients and the test–retest and inter-rater reliability were assessed. Factor analysis was used in search of factors capable of explaining the scale and a cutoff point was established. The DIDP scales showed adequate Cronbach's α values and acceptable test–retest and inter-rater reliability coefficients. Convergent and discriminant validity were explored, the latter with respect to avoidant and borderline personality disorders. The results of the factor analysis were consistent with the four-factor structure of the DIDP scales. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis revealed the area under the curve to be 0.848. We found 30 to be a good cutoff point, with a sensitivity of 74.5% and a specificity of 78.5%. The DIDP proved to be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing depressive personality disorder, at least among our outpatients. The psychometric properties of the DIDP support its clinical usefulness in assessing depressive personality.

The assessment of perceived information pollution in banking sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qaisar Iqbal ◽  
Siti Hasnah Hassan ◽  
Noor Hazlina Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of

Infollution management is a substantial dilemma in this century. There is lacking empirical evidence about infollution management. Perceived infollution has been explored based on information quality. This study aims to identify the factors of perceived infollution (information pollution) and validate those factors using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Researchers have personally collected data from employees of the banking sector. Factor analysis was performed to explore the factors using Statistical Package for the Social Science, and CFA was conducted to check the reliability, validity, and the model fitness in SmartPLS. The scale developed in this study has exhibited high values of reliability and validity and ensured the presence of both discriminant validity and convergent validity. The newly developed scale of perceived infollution provides a basis for most of the academicians and researchers to empirically investigate the relationship of perceived infollution with individual’s performance and organizational effectiveness, which is considered an important area of interest among the academic researchers in recent years. Extent literature review suggests that it is the first study conducted to develop measurement scale of perceived infollution (information pollution).

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