Construction and Validation of “National Scale of Students Life Profile”: A Preliminary Study

doi:10.22059/japr.2016.60970

Construction and Validation of “National Scale of Students Life Profile”: A Preliminary Study

Document Type : Research Paper

10.22059/japr.2016.60970

Abstract

Student life is a very different and highly
challenged course. Specially, the beginning of student life is often associated
with enormous psychological pressure, such as isolation from family and living
independently, finding part-time jobs and dealing with various mental problems.
This study has aimed to construct and validate a national student life scale
for drawing students' lives’ profile. In order to build the national Portrait
of student life scale profile some international and national scales and questionnaire
were examined and the scale with 95 questions was conducted on the population
of 70 students. After screening the data and fixing errors,an exploratory
factor analysis was conducted on a sample of 1,200 students,
based on the theoretical models. The prepared questionnaire consists of seven
main parts based on theory. Factor analysis was conducted for sections
attitudes, satisfaction and concerns, emotions and high risk behaviors, and in
each of the aforementioned sections respectively 3, 2, 2 and 5 factors were
extracted which were congruent with the theoretical model. Totally it can be
said that an early version of the national student life scale profile has had
good psychometric properties and can be used in researches related to the
students and young people

Keywords

National Scale of Students Life Profile

life style

Mental Health

Addiction

Suicide

Exploratory Factor Analysis

Student Life