An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents

Adolescence is a period of stress that invites to psychosocial dysfunctional among adolescents. The effects of uncontrolled psychosocial dysfunctional can contribute to a variety of behavioral and emotional problems. This is alarming because statistics in Malaysia about psychosocial malfunction amon...

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Main Authors: Sulong, Rose Manisah, Ahmad, Nor Aniza, Che Hassan, Norlizah, Zainudin, Zaida Nor, Ismail, Maimunah
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Language:English
Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2020
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38316/
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author Sulong, Rose Manisah
Ahmad, Nor Aniza
Che Hassan, Norlizah
Zainudin, Zaida Nor
Ismail, Maimunah
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Ahmad, Nor Aniza
Che Hassan, Norlizah
Zainudin, Zaida Nor
Ismail, Maimunah
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description Adolescence is a period of stress that invites to psychosocial dysfunctional among adolescents. The effects of uncontrolled psychosocial dysfunctional can contribute to a variety of behavioral and emotional problems. This is alarming because statistics in Malaysia about psychosocial malfunction among adolescents show high rates when they are an important future asset to the nation. Literature suggest that research on protective factors of resilience can help to understand the strength of self as well as to highlight potential in adolescents. In this study, one set of questionnaires has been modified in the context of Malaysia and has been through the back-translation process, face and content validity as well as constructs validity. The construct validity of this study was analyzed using an exploratory factor analysis of 183 adolescents aged 16 years. Findings show that all constructs exceed the requirements for sufficient and significant samples for analysis of subsequent factor exploratory by extracting using the principal component of the analysis via varimax rotation. The analysis found that three factors were extracted for school external protective factors and home external protective factor and two factors have been extracted for peer external protective factor as suggested by Resilience Theory (Benard, 1991). Meanwhile, only two factors have been extracted for community external protection factor compared to the original three factors. The discussion and conclusion of this study are discussed in depth at the end of this article.
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spelling upm-383162020-05-04T16:16:19Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38316/ An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents Sulong, Rose Manisah Ahmad, Nor Aniza Che Hassan, Norlizah Zainudin, Zaida Nor Ismail, Maimunah Adolescence is a period of stress that invites to psychosocial dysfunctional among adolescents. The effects of uncontrolled psychosocial dysfunctional can contribute to a variety of behavioral and emotional problems. This is alarming because statistics in Malaysia about psychosocial malfunction among adolescents show high rates when they are an important future asset to the nation. Literature suggest that research on protective factors of resilience can help to understand the strength of self as well as to highlight potential in adolescents. In this study, one set of questionnaires has been modified in the context of Malaysia and has been through the back-translation process, face and content validity as well as constructs validity. The construct validity of this study was analyzed using an exploratory factor analysis of 183 adolescents aged 16 years. Findings show that all constructs exceed the requirements for sufficient and significant samples for analysis of subsequent factor exploratory by extracting using the principal component of the analysis via varimax rotation. The analysis found that three factors were extracted for school external protective factors and home external protective factor and two factors have been extracted for peer external protective factor as suggested by Resilience Theory (Benard, 1991). Meanwhile, only two factors have been extracted for community external protection factor compared to the original three factors. The discussion and conclusion of this study are discussed in depth at the end of this article. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38316/1/38316.pdf Sulong, Rose Manisah and Ahmad, Nor Aniza and Che Hassan, Norlizah and Zainudin, Zaida Nor and Ismail, Maimunah (2020) An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 10 (3). pp. 797-810. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/papers/detail/IJARBSS/7093 10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i3/7093
spellingShingle Sulong, Rose Manisah
Ahmad, Nor Aniza
Che Hassan, Norlizah
Zainudin, Zaida Nor
Ismail, Maimunah
An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents
title An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents
title_full An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents
title_fullStr An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents
title_full_unstemmed An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents
title_short An exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in Malaysian adolescents
title_sort exploratory factor analysis in measuring external protective factors of resilience in malaysian adolescents
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38316/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38316/1/38316.pdf