Construct Validity and the Coefficient Reliability of Spiritual Attitude Scale to Measure Moslems' Spiritual Attitude for High School Students

摘要

Nowadays, researchers are interested to further investigate and look for the meaning and purpose in human lives and in spiritual experiences. Although it is hardly practical to discuss the definition, the measure of such attribute is another thing. This research aims to investigate the construct validity and the coefficient reliability of the spiritual attitude scale to measure Moslems' spiritual attitude for high school students. The spirituality as the attributes of psychology is continuously interested to further investigate and look for the meaning and purpose in human lives and in spiritual experiences. Although it is hardly practical to discuss the definition, the measure of such attribute is another thing. This research instrument is an inventory model of summated rating scale containing 23 items. Quantitative data analysis is used to test the evidence of the instrument's construct validity and the coefficient reliability. The results are revealing that there are eight factors extracted with eigenvalues over 1.0 from the total instruments questionnaire. The instrument reliability regarded as the coefficient of the construct reliability supported with the Cronbach's alpha values is 0.796.