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Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims

The objective of this paper is to report the process of quantifying the content validity of items in five newly developed scales that measure the psychological antecedents of crowds during Hajj (i.e., Personality, Crowd mood, Expected Crowdedness, Perceived Lawlessness, and Hajj Familiarity).The p...

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Main Authors: Abdul Rahman, Shukran, Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana, Shuib, Mohd Arif, Ahmad Hatta, Zulkarnain, Abdul Ghani, Noraida, Sulong, Jasni, Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah, Mat Saad, Zarina
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Published: 2014
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spelling my.uum.repo.132392016-04-27T02:42:41Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13239/ Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims Abdul Rahman, Shukran Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana Shuib, Mohd Arif Ahmad Hatta, Zulkarnain Abdul Ghani, Noraida Sulong, Jasni Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah Mat Saad, Zarina BF Psychology The objective of this paper is to report the process of quantifying the content validity of items in five newly developed scales that measure the psychological antecedents of crowds during Hajj (i.e., Personality, Crowd mood, Expected Crowdedness, Perceived Lawlessness, and Hajj Familiarity).The purpose of content validation is to assess whether the items in the scales represent the construct of specific interest, referred to as the concept of content validity for the scales.The content validation exercise helps test developers to assess the extent to which the scale samples or represents all domains of a given concept.A scale may lack content validity if it only assesses a dimension of the construct and fails to take into account the remaining dimensions as have been defined for the respective construct.This exercise quantifies the degree of experts’ agreement (N=15) as to whether the sample of items developed adequately represent a particular dimension of the construct in question, after which the content validity ratio for each item was calculated.The value of content validity ratio serves as important basis for the acceptance of an item in the scales, as it provides the agreement of subject matter experts about the representatives of the items, and, in turn, leads to the index for high content validity. 2014-08-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/13239/1/48.pdf Abdul Rahman, Shukran and Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana and Shuib, Mohd Arif and Ahmad Hatta, Zulkarnain and Abdul Ghani, Noraida and Sulong, Jasni and Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah and Mat Saad, Zarina (2014) Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims. In: International Social Development Conference 2014 (ISDC 2014), 12 – 13 August 2014, Bayview Hotel Langkawi, Malaysia. http://www.insanmaya.net/
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spellingShingle BF Psychology
Abdul Rahman, Shukran
Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana
Shuib, Mohd Arif
Ahmad Hatta, Zulkarnain
Abdul Ghani, Noraida
Sulong, Jasni
Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
Mat Saad, Zarina
Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims
description The objective of this paper is to report the process of quantifying the content validity of items in five newly developed scales that measure the psychological antecedents of crowds during Hajj (i.e., Personality, Crowd mood, Expected Crowdedness, Perceived Lawlessness, and Hajj Familiarity).The purpose of content validation is to assess whether the items in the scales represent the construct of specific interest, referred to as the concept of content validity for the scales.The content validation exercise helps test developers to assess the extent to which the scale samples or represents all domains of a given concept.A scale may lack content validity if it only assesses a dimension of the construct and fails to take into account the remaining dimensions as have been defined for the respective construct.This exercise quantifies the degree of experts’ agreement (N=15) as to whether the sample of items developed adequately represent a particular dimension of the construct in question, after which the content validity ratio for each item was calculated.The value of content validity ratio serves as important basis for the acceptance of an item in the scales, as it provides the agreement of subject matter experts about the representatives of the items, and, in turn, leads to the index for high content validity.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Rahman, Shukran
Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana
Shuib, Mohd Arif
Ahmad Hatta, Zulkarnain
Abdul Ghani, Noraida
Sulong, Jasni
Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
Mat Saad, Zarina
author_facet Abdul Rahman, Shukran
Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana
Shuib, Mohd Arif
Ahmad Hatta, Zulkarnain
Abdul Ghani, Noraida
Sulong, Jasni
Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
Mat Saad, Zarina
author_sort Abdul Rahman, Shukran
title Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims
title_short Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims
title_full Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims
title_fullStr Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims
title_full_unstemmed Content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among Hajj pilgrims
title_sort content validation of scales assessing psychological antecedents of crowds among hajj pilgrims
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/13239/1/48.pdf
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http://www.insanmaya.net/
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