Psychometric Properties of the Linguistic Self-concept Scale among Al-Azhar Secondary Stage Students

Hudhaifah, Ayman Fathi Abdo; Idris, Abdel Fattah Issa; Lutfi, Fathi El Sayed Mahrez; Mohamed, Sameh Gomaa Abdel Majid

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2021.216164

Psychometric Properties of the Linguistic Self-concept Scale among Al-Azhar Secondary Stage Students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ قسم علم النفس التعليمي، کلية التربية، جامعة الأزهر، مصر.

² Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

10.21608/jsrep.2021.216164

Abstract

The current research aimed to develop a scale for the linguistic self-concept and to verify it is psychometric properties (validity - reliability), and how suitable it is for administration in the Egyptian environment by providing indicators of the scale's reliability and validity. The research participants were (110) secondary stage students and the descriptive method was adopted. Findings revealed that there were acceptable indicators for validity, and the scale depended on multiple aspects of validity which are (jurors’ validity and factor analysis validity). Findings also indicated that the scale has high reliability indicators that allow it to be practically utilized. The reliability value of the total score of the scale was (0.901) by using the Alpha Cronbach coefficient. The correlation coefficient between the degree of each dimension and the total score was calculated totaling: reading self-concept (0,939), written self-concept (0.612), grammatical-self-concept (0.757), and literary self-concept (0,877). It was revealed that the scale paragraphs revolve around four factors, namely (The grammatical self-concept - the literary self-concept - the reading self-concept - the writing self-concept).

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