Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.
Scand J Psychol. 2020 Jun;61(3):410-415. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12627. Epub 2020 Feb 22.
The transition to university can be stressful for first-year university students. Despite the fact where the feeling of worry is a shared symptom by various mental health issues, there is a lack of studies that investigate into this matter. As worry is a domain-specific construct, there is a need for a valid and reliable measure of worry specifically for university students. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Student Worry Scale (SWS), particularly in terms of its validity and reliability. For this purpose, the current study recruited a sample of 295 first-year students to evaluate the psychometric properties of SWS. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a five-factor structure of SWS, which explained 55.7% of the total variance. The yielded five factors were general worries, financial-related concerns, significant other's well-being, academic concerns, and social adequacy concerns. Inter-correlations between the five factors were all significant (r ranged between 0.395 and 0.625). The SWS demonstrated good internal consistency in this study (Cronbach's alpha ranged between 0.786 and 0.941). Overall, the SWS is psychometrically evidenced to be a reliable and valid content-based worry measure specifically for university students.
对于大一新生来说，适应大学生活可能会带来压力。尽管担忧的感觉是各种心理健康问题的共同症状，但缺乏对此问题的研究。由于担忧是一个特定领域的结构，因此需要有一个针对大学生的担忧的有效且可靠的衡量标准。因此，本研究旨在评估学生担忧量表（SWS）的心理计量特性，特别是在其有效性和可靠性方面。为此，本研究招募了 295 名大一新生的样本，以评估 SWS 的心理计量特性。探索性因素分析得出了 SWS 的五因素结构，该结构解释了总方差的 55.7%。产生的五个因素是一般担忧、财务相关问题、他人的幸福、学术问题和社会适应问题。五个因素之间的相互关联都很显著（r 介于 0.395 和 0.625 之间）。在本研究中，SWS 表现出良好的内部一致性（Cronbach 的 alpha 介于 0.786 和 0.941 之间）。总的来说，SWS 在心理计量学上被证明是一种可靠且有效的基于内容的大学生担忧测量工具。
