Facebook Use Oriented Attitude Scale: Development, Reliability and Validity Study
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
The purpose of this study is developing a valid, reliable and useful scale to evaluate attitude of university students towards one of the most popular social network sites of the world in the last five years; Facebook. To that end, an item pool consisting of 70 items of pentad Likert type is established. After expert opinions and preliminary testing stage, 7 of the items were removed from the scale and a 63 item scale form draft was prepared. This scale draft was applied to students (n=362) of Siirt University Faculty of Education in spring term of 2014-2015. As a result of analysis of data, a 30 item “Facebook Attitude Scale” in pentad Likert type that has a Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient of 0,901. Also, it is observed that the items of this final scale are gathered under 3 factors and a total variance ratio of %53,624 is explained by these factors. Consequently, a valid and reliable scale that can evaluate the Facebook attitudes of individuals is developed.
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H. Coşkun ÇELİK, Aziz ILHAN
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