Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students

As a preliminary step to studying the reciprocal relationship between student engagement and academic self-handicapping, the present study had the aim of validating two key instruments on the target non-western population. The two instruments in question were 1) the Self-Handicapping Questionnaire...

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Main Authors: Mwita, Hafsa Mzee, Shahab, Syed Alwi, Nordin, Mohamad Sahari, Zubairi, Ainol Madziah
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spelling iium-502752017-11-14T03:38:38Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50275/ Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students Mwita, Hafsa Mzee Shahab, Syed Alwi Nordin, Mohamad Sahari Zubairi, Ainol Madziah L Education (General) As a preliminary step to studying the reciprocal relationship between student engagement and academic self-handicapping, the present study had the aim of validating two key instruments on the target non-western population. The two instruments in question were 1) the Self-Handicapping Questionnaire (SHQ 2011), and 2) the Student Engagement Questionnaire (SEQ 2011) which consists of i) the Emotional Engagement Scale, ii) the Behavioral Engagement Scale, and iii) the Cognitive Engagement Scale. We wanted to discover the psychometric properties of these instruments when used on an Asian Muslim population, in a predominantly Muslim setting. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were employed. Results indicated that both measures had adequate validity and reliability when used on a Muslim population. IIUM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50275/1/50275.pdf Mwita, Hafsa Mzee and Shahab, Syed Alwi and Nordin, Mohamad Sahari and Zubairi, Ainol Madziah (2015) Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students. IIUM Journal of Educational Studies, 3 (2). pp. 131-163. ISSN 1675-8692 E-ISSN 2289-8085 http://journals.iium.edu.my/ijes/index.php/iejs/article/view/97/pdf_24
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Mwita, Hafsa Mzee
Shahab, Syed Alwi
Nordin, Mohamad Sahari
Zubairi, Ainol Madziah
Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students
description As a preliminary step to studying the reciprocal relationship between student engagement and academic self-handicapping, the present study had the aim of validating two key instruments on the target non-western population. The two instruments in question were 1) the Self-Handicapping Questionnaire (SHQ 2011), and 2) the Student Engagement Questionnaire (SEQ 2011) which consists of i) the Emotional Engagement Scale, ii) the Behavioral Engagement Scale, and iii) the Cognitive Engagement Scale. We wanted to discover the psychometric properties of these instruments when used on an Asian Muslim population, in a predominantly Muslim setting. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were employed. Results indicated that both measures had adequate validity and reliability when used on a Muslim population.
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author Mwita, Hafsa Mzee
Shahab, Syed Alwi
Nordin, Mohamad Sahari
Zubairi, Ainol Madziah
author_facet Mwita, Hafsa Mzee
Shahab, Syed Alwi
Nordin, Mohamad Sahari
Zubairi, Ainol Madziah
author_sort Mwita, Hafsa Mzee
title Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students
title_short Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students
title_full Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students
title_fullStr Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students
title_full_unstemmed Validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on Muslim university students
title_sort validation of measures of academic self-handicapping behavior and student engagement on muslim university students
publisher IIUM Press
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/50275/
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