Ortaokul Öğrencileri İçin Stres Ölçeğinin Geliştirilmesi: Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

Developing Stress Scale for Secondary School Students: Reliability and Validity Study

Özet

Bu çalışma; ortaokul öğrencilerinin TEOG (Temel Eğitimden Ortaöğretime Geçiş)

Abstract

This study was carried out to develop a scale that aims at defining the stress level of thesecondary school students within a few days before they take a mandatory state exam calledTEOG (General High Schools Entrance Exam conducted by the Ministry of Education). Havinggathered the opinions of the experts in field, the first draft of the scale that has 44 items in totalwas prepared. The scale was applied to 8th grade students from three different schools threedays before TEOG examinations. Reliability and validity issues were checked according to thedata obtained from 260 students from three different schools in the second term of 2013-14educational years in Siirt. Item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factoranalysis were used accordingly. The reliability (alpha) value of the scale was .91. Finally, itwas evaluated that the number of the items in the final draft of the scale had to be decreasedto 21 items and 4 sub-dimensions namely Emotional Distress, Physical Complaints, SocialSymptoms, and Emotional Intensity. It was discovered that it explained 56% of the variance.According to results of confirmatory factor analysis, χ²/sd value was 1.595, and RMSEA value was .048. These results show that the scale has a perfect consistency. In addition, GFI (.90),AGFI (.88), NFI (.86), and CFI (.94) values are acceptable.