Constructing a Scale of Readiness for Change for Alexandria University Students

Elkhateeb, Marwa Mostafa; Mansy, Mahmoud Abd-Elhalim; Farag, Mohamed Anwar Ibrahim

doi:10.21608/jealex.2022.256282

Constructing a Scale of Readiness for Change for Alexandria University Students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ مدرس علم النفس التربوي المساعد- کلية التربية- جامعة الإسکندرية.

² أستاذ علم النفس التربوي - کلية التربية- جامعة الإسکندرية.

³ أستاذ علم النفس التربوي، وعميد کلية التربية- جامعة الإسکندرية.

10.21608/jealex.2022.256282

Abstract

The current research aimed to construct a new tool to measure readiness for change for Alexandria University Students, and then calculating reliability, validity, internal consistency, and discriminatory ability. It also aimed to reveal the extent to which the measurement equivalence has been achieved between the students of the medical sector, the scientific sector, the educational sector, and the sector of faculties of humanities at the University of Alexandria on the scale of readiness for change. The scale was applied to (444) students from Alexandria University, and the scale of readiness for change was used (Prepared by / researchers), and the results concluded that there are good psychometric indicators for the readiness for change scale. In addition to achieving the equivalence of measurement for the Readiness to change model, that is scale gives the same results efficiently across different colleges, and therefore The potential differences are actually due to differences in how much each student has the same ability, and not to the difference in the factor structure of the scale of readiness for change.

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