البنية العاملية لمقياس قلق المستقبل لدى طلبة الجامعة: دراسة استكشافية توكيدية مقارنة

Abstract

The study aimed to build a future concern scale and to survey the factorial structure of the scale on a sample of students at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in Saudi Arabia. The sample consisted of (312) male and female students. The researcher built a future concern scale of (48) sections with five sub-dimensions. The psychometric characteristics of the scale were verified using a number of procedures. The results of the exploratory factor analysis show another model of future concern, it consisted of (6) dimensions and (42) sections. The theoretical and statistical models were compared using the confirmatory factor analysis to determine which model is the best. The study revealed that the statistical model derived from the exploratory factor analysis was the best based on a number of goodness of fit indexes