Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD candidate of educational psychology at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

2 Associate professor of educational psychology at Shiraz University, Shira, Iran (corresponding author), email: charyhos@yahoo.com

3 Professor of educational psychology at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

4 Associate professor of educational psychology at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

One of the crucial needs of students for entering the next stages of life is earning academic psychological capital at school, a capital facilitating their entrance to organizational community and university. Considering the importance of psychological capital in the area of education and lack of a valid and reliable instrument for measuring it during the high school period, the present study attempted to fill this gap and to provide evidence related to determining the reliability and validity of the academic psychological capital scale. This scale was designed and developed on the first and second secondary levels at Manoojan, Iran. A sample of 260 participants were chosen through convenience sampling and responded to the questionnaire items. For determining the reliability and construct validity of the scale, first and secondary confirmatory factor analysis was used. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that all four factors identified based on the theoretical underpinning of the study were confirmed. The criterion validity was assessed through correlation of the results with those obtained from the Lootanz's (2007) psychological capital scale, and the total reliability coefficient for the scale developed in the study was found to be .92. Consequently, it can be stated that the developed scale can be used in research studies in the realm of academic psychological capital.

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