Construction and examine the psychometric characteristics the Academic Hope Scale

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shiraz university

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Objective:Hope is motivational– emotional construct refers to the expectation that based on the individual probability that pleasant events occur in the future. So the aim of this study was construction academic hope scale and investigate its psychometric characteristics in students.
Method: This scale has 27 items that have been extracted from the content of interviews with students. To investigate psychometric characteristics of this scale 241 boy and girl high school were selected by random cluster sampling from four areas of Shiraz education schools and they answered to academic hope scale. Also to explore it criterion validity was used of the psychological hardiness questionnaire and patience scale for children and adolescents.
Results: The results of exploratory factor analysis by principal components method with varimax rotation indicating the existence of 4 component academic hope that were named respectively to hope to gain opportunity, hope to gain life skills, hope to usefulness of school and hope to gain competency. This four component explained 58 percent of the total variance of sample. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to assess the reliability of the scale. Cronbach's alpha for subscale hope to gain opportunities 0/90, hope to gain life skills 0.90, hope to usefulness of school 0.84, hope to gain competency 0.76 and Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the total academic hope scale was 0.94.
Conclusion: Generally the results showed that academic hope scale has an appropriate reliability and validity and it can be used as a useful tool to assessment academic hope in students.

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Biquarterly Journal of Cognitive Strategies in Learning
Volume 5, Issue 8
August 2017
Pages 15-37

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