Developing Stress Scale for Secondary School Students: Reliability and Validity Study
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This study was carried out to develop a scale that aims at defining the stress level of the
secondary school students within a few days before they take a mandatory state exam called
TEOG (General High Schools Entrance Exam conducted by the Ministry of Education). Having
gathered the opinions of the experts in field, the first draft of the scale that has 44 items in total
was prepared. The scale was applied to 8th grade students from three different schools three
days before TEOG examinations. Reliability and validity issues were checked according to the
data obtained from 260 students from three different schools in the second term of 2013-14
educational years in Siirt. Item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor
analysis were used accordingly. The reliability (alpha) value of the scale was .91. Finally, it
was evaluated that the number of the items in the final draft of the scale had to be decreased
to 21 items and 4 sub-dimensions namely Emotional Distress, Physical Complaints, Social
Symptoms, and Emotional Intensity. It was discovered that it explained 56% of the variance.
According to results of confirmatory factor analysis, χ²/sd value was 1.595, and RMSEA value was .048. These results show that the scale has a perfect consistency. In addition, GFI (.90),
AGFI (.88), NFI (.86), and CFI (.94) values are acceptable.
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