Development And Validation Of Scale On Academic Stressors In College Students PDF

DOI: http://doi.org/10.54079/jpmi.38.1.3288 ORIGINAL ARTICLE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF SCALE ON ACADEMIC STRESSORS IN COLLEGE STUDENTS: A FACTOR ANALY...

DOI: http://doi.org/10.54079/jpmi.38.1.3288 ORIGINAL ARTICLE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF SCALE ON ACADEMIC STRESSORS IN COLLEGE STUDENTS: A FACTOR ANALYTICAL APPROACH Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Pro- Ayesha jabeen, Aiman Shahzad , Maria Khan fessional Psychology, Uni- versity of Management and ABSTRACT Technology- Lahore- Paki- Objective: To find out the experience and expression of academic stressors in college students and to develop a stan reliable and valid measure. Address for correspondence: Methodology: A sample of 244 college students with age range 15-20 (M = 17.38, SD = 1.22) were selected Aiman Shahzad through the convenient sampling technique. Both boys and girls living in intact families, having no physical or psy- Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Pro- chological disorder studying in different government and private institutes of city Lahore were included in the study. fessional Psychology, Uni- A three-step model (item generation, expert validation, and pilot study) was used to develop the scale. versity of Management and Results: Descriptive statistics revealed n=97(39%) 1st year and 147 (61%) 2nd year students with highest number Technology- Lahore- Paki- stan living in nuclear family system (n=150(61%). Exploratory factor analysis using Principal Component factor analysis revealed two factors: sustaining performance and psychosocial stressors. The value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin was.87 E-mail: and the Bartlett test was 929.90 with p=0.000. Student Problem Checklist was used to establish the concurrent [email protected]. validity of the scale and was found to be r=.92. The internal consistency was 0.92 (p