DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL IMMUNITY SCALE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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The purpose of this research was to develop the psychological immunity scale for undergraduate students. In the first step of developing the psychological immunity scale, the researcher used the qualitative research method to define the meaning of psychological immunity by 1) reviewing relevant documents, 2) using the in-depth interview conducted with a semi-structured questionnaire to 15 informants from the professional teaching group, and 3) using an open-ended questionnaire to 80 undergraduate students in teaching profession. In the second step, the researcher developed the psychological immunity scale and analyzed for 1) the content validity index, which was in range of 0.80 - 1.00 2) the discrimination, which was in range of 0.328 - 0.688 and 3) the overall reliability using Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, which equals to 0.913. In the final step, the researcher collected data from the sample group of 500 undergraduate students in teaching profession in order to analyze the survey components using Principal component analysis and Orthogonal rotation by Varimax method. The results showed that the components of the psychological immunity test were divided into 4 factors, which were 1) adaptability, 2) understanding others, 3) self-understanding and 4) self-esteem that could explain about the variance of psychological immunity at 52.905% while each factor above (1, 2, 3, and 4) could explain about the variance of psychological immunity at 36.336, 6.207, 5.722, and 4.640% respectively.
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