FACTOR ANALYSIS OF CHILDREN’S PERCEPTION ON INTER PARENTAL CONFLICT AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT
Abstract
- The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the number of items and the dimensions of the scale from children’s perception of inter-parental conflict and psychosocial adjustment. Descriptive survey research method was applied and quantitative data analysis was executed in this study. For inter-parental conflict, three instruments were used with 65 items. For psychosocial adjustment, four instruments were used with 128 items. The total of 843 students from basic education schools (435 males and 408 females) were randomly selected. Grade 6 & 7 students in Shan State, Mandalay Region and Magway Region were examined. And then, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to investigate the number of items and the dimensions of the scale. It was also used to reduce data to a smaller set of summary variables and to postulate that there is a smaller set of unobserved (latent) variables or constructs that underlie the variables that actually were observed. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a multivariate statistical procedure that is used to test how well the measured variables represent the number of constructs. CFA was conducted to determine the existing structure of the scale and to test how the variables are related to underlying constructs. For inter-parental conflict, three subscales (threat, conflict properties and self-blame) were used with 21-items. For self-esteem, two subscales (performance, social self-esteem) were used with 17-items. For social skill, two subscales (prosocial behaviour, delinquency) were used with 21-items.
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Year
- 2024
Author
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Aye Swe Htun
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Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)