Development of a Digital Citizenship Scale for Youth: A Validity and Reliability Study
Öz
The main objective of this
study is to develop a valid and reliable scale for identifying digital
citizenship perceptions of young people in the most common age groups. The
study was conducted as a survey study. The study group of this study is
composed of 438 people in Turkey who are among 16-24 age group with the highest
rate of internet use in Turkey. An exploratory factor analysis was performed to
determine the validity of the scale and the item discrimination powers were
calculated. The total variance of the scale was determined that the scale had
8-factor structure and was found to be 49,70%. The internal consistency level
was also calculated to determine the reliability of the scale. As a result, it
can be said that this scale is a valid and reliable scale that can be used to
determine the digital citizenship perceptions of young people.
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