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标题：Exploring Psychometric Properties of The Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status-II (EOM-EIS II) among Adolescents in Malaysia
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作者：Siti Marhamah Kamarul Arifain ; Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman ; Abdul Rahman Ahmad Badayai 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2022
卷号：12
期号：4
页码：1010-1027
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i4/13176
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：There are many approaches that have been used in measuring identity formation among adolescents. A very popular approach taken to measure identity formation objectively is through psychometric assessment. The EOM-EIS II instrument is a test commonly used among researchers. Thus, the research is aimed to evaluate the EOM-EIS II in the local culture of Malaysia. The research objectives are to evaluate the content validity, construct validity and the reliability of the EOM-EIS-II instrument. This study adapted correlational method using cross-sectional design approach. Also, in this study, researchers have performed forward-backward translation method and have tested psychometric properties. In testing the content and construct validity in this instrument, a total of 100 adolescents in one of the schools in Malacca, Malaysia was used as the study sample aged between 13-17 years old. Cronbach alpha analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) were used to test the reliability and validity of this instrument. This scale consists of 64 items, but after going through expert evaluation, the instrument only had 44 items. However, a total of 31 items had to be dropped again and only 13 items were accepted in the final instrument. Results of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) extracted two factors with good Eigen values and Percentage of Variance Explained (PVE) with PVE total of 65.53%. All the factors showed that good factor loadings between .666 and .842. Reliability analysis also showed high values of Cronbach alpha for the two dimensions from 0.76 to 0.78. From this study, psychometric properties have been explored and showed good validity and reliability values. However, there are only two constructs retained out of the four original ego identity statuses constructs proposed by Marcia. This study can be used as a screening material to measure the identity formation among adolescents in Malaysia and researchers had found novelty in the Marcia’s Theory of Ego Identity Statuses.