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- Title
THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION LIFE SATISFACTION SCALE.
- Authors
EROL, Murat; YILDIRIM, İbrahim
- Abstract
The Higher Education Life Satisfaction Scale (HELSS) in Turkish culture was developed in this study. HELSS has been applied to a total of 852 university students (637 males and 215 females) for its validity and reliability. The data have been analyzed with the SPSS (Standard Program for Social Sciences) 18.00 and LISREL 8.8. HELSS' construct validity has been analyzed with exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. According to the analysis results, it's been determined that HELSS includes a five-factor structure. These factors have been denominated as following: the first factor as "general university satisfaction", the second factor as "satisfaction from instructors", the third factor as "satisfaction from university social services", the fourth factor as "satisfaction from university facilities" and the fifth factor as "satisfaction from university administration". HELSS explains 58.35 % of the total variance. As a result of the implementation for criterion validity, it has been observed that positive meaningful relationship occurs between HELSS and the General Life Satisfaction Scale (r=.64, p<.01) (Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin, 1985). In the study of HELSS' reliability, the coefficient of internal consistency has been established to be .93. In the Test-retest reliability scale which was done with two weeks of difference, Pearson moment correlation coefficient has been established to be rχχ=.996 (p<.01). Furthermore, Item-total correlations ranging between .35 and .75, and according to t-test results differences between each item's means of upper 27% and lower 27% points were significant (p<.001). Based on these results, it's possible to say that HELSS is a valid and reliable assessment evaluation instrument.
- Subjects
TURKEY; HIGHER education; ACADEMIC degrees; COLLEGE integration; SOCIAL institutions; EDUCATION
- Publication
Journal of Theory & Practice in Education (JTPE) / Eğitimde Kuram ve Uygulama, 2016, Vol 12, Issue 1, p221
- ISSN
1304-9496
- Publication type
Article