TITLE:
Construction and Validation of Self-Management Scale for Undergraduate Students
AUTHORS:
Gang Xue, Xiaomin Sun
KEYWORDS:
Self-Management, Social Cognitive Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.2 No.2,
June
27,
2011
ABSTRACT: This study developed a scale to assess undergraduate students’ self-management ability in daily life. Forty items about self-management on time, goal, emotions and personal relationships were generated for the draft scale. Content review panel deleted seven items. In Study 1, 522 Chinese undergraduate students took the test. Exploratory factor analysis and item analysis on the first half 261 cases deleted 6 items. Confirmatory factor analysis further revised the model and resulted in a two-factor Self-Management Scale, consisting of 21 items. Cross-validation on the second half 261 cases also verified the scale’s structural validity. In Study 2, responses from 374 undergraduate students were used to examine the reliability and criterion-related validity of the scale. The internal consistency reliability of the scale was 0.86. Relationship management showed good criterion-related validity, while the validity of performance management needs further examination.