The self-reliance scale: development and validation Online publication date: Thu, 25-Jan-2024
by Meera Padhy; Meena Hariharan; Suma Lavanya Mutnury; Oindrila Mukherjee; Risvana Maryam
International Journal of Sustainable Society (IJSSOC), Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024
Abstract: The objectives of this study are to - develop a self-report scale to measure self-reliance, evaluate its main structure, and study psychometric properties in the developed scale. The complete process of developing and validating the scale consociates three phase: phase I - writing of items and content validation, phase II - factor analysis, and phase III - testing reliability and validity. The study included 2,210 participants. An exploratory factor analysis was run using IBM SPSS 23. An exploratory factor analysis with oblique rotation of the intercorrelations of the 30 items resulted in a 4-factor solution: self-efficacy, external dependence, autonomy and self-confidence deficit. Cronbach's alpha index of internal reliability was used to evaluate the psychometric properties of the self-reliance scale. As the scale measures different aspects of the important variable of self-reliance, the applicability of the instrument will be vast and remarkable.
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