Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students
The current study presents the validation process of a measure of institutional identity for university students. The research is composed of two studies. Study I consisted of the generation of an item pool based on the literature review, semi-structured interviews, and expert opinion, which were ad...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34438556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8080665 |
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author | Bilal, Zunaira Ghayas, Saba Naeem, Taram Kayani, Sumaira Xie, Ruibo Biasutti, Michele |
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description | The current study presents the validation process of a measure of institutional identity for university students. The research is composed of two studies. Study I consisted of the generation of an item pool based on the literature review, semi-structured interviews, and expert opinion, which were administered to a convenient sample of university students (n = 707; 300 males and 407 females) in Pakistan. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor structure with 20 items, and the factors were named commitment (α = 0.84) and crisis (α = 0.74). The two-factor solution was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis, which revealed an excellent model fit with the two-factor structure. Study II reports on the convergent and divergent validity of the scale which was carried out on an independent sample (n = 120). Results provided evidence of convergent validity as depression correlated negatively with the commitment subscale and positively with the crisis subscale. Divergent validity was ensured by a non-significant correlation between the subscales of the newly developed scale and a measure of religious belief. Moreover, the implications and limitations of the study are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-83919952021-08-28 Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students Bilal, Zunaira Ghayas, Saba Naeem, Taram Kayani, Sumaira Xie, Ruibo Biasutti, Michele Children (Basel) Article The current study presents the validation process of a measure of institutional identity for university students. The research is composed of two studies. Study I consisted of the generation of an item pool based on the literature review, semi-structured interviews, and expert opinion, which were administered to a convenient sample of university students (n = 707; 300 males and 407 females) in Pakistan. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a two-factor structure with 20 items, and the factors were named commitment (α = 0.84) and crisis (α = 0.74). The two-factor solution was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis, which revealed an excellent model fit with the two-factor structure. Study II reports on the convergent and divergent validity of the scale which was carried out on an independent sample (n = 120). Results provided evidence of convergent validity as depression correlated negatively with the commitment subscale and positively with the crisis subscale. Divergent validity was ensured by a non-significant correlation between the subscales of the newly developed scale and a measure of religious belief. Moreover, the implications and limitations of the study are discussed. MDPI 2021-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8391995/ /pubmed/34438556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8080665 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bilal, Zunaira Ghayas, Saba Naeem, Taram Kayani, Sumaira Xie, Ruibo Biasutti, Michele Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students |
title | Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students |
title_full | Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students |
title_fullStr | Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students |
title_short | Construction and Validation of Institutional Identity Scale for University Students |
title_sort | construction and validation of institutional identity scale for university students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8391995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34438556 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8080665 |
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