期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：11
页码：1022-1030
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i11/4981
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Negative environmental are one of the factor that exposed adolescents who grow up under this circumstances to the greater risk of developing psychological and social problems. The aim of this paper is to determine the validity and reliability of Risky Antecedents variable of Instrumen Remaja Berisiko Jenayah (IRBJ) that was developed by Mohammad Nasir et al. (2018) and consists of 99 items in total. This variable consists of two construct which are support (consists of three sub-construct: support from family, peers and school) and family socioeconomic status. Pilot study involved 66 students from a secondary school in Perak (male:27, female:39) and carried out in March 2018. Result from validity analysis by using content validity method shows an acceptable validity value which is .92. The internal consistency reliability for this variable was α= .83. The present study showed that these variable has acceptable validity and reliability value to measure adolescents’ support (family, peer and school) and family socioeconomic status in Malaysia. Further studies are needed to validate this variable across different population, culture, and with higher number of samples by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).
