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Reliability and validity of the Arousal Predisposition Scale among Chinese undergraduate students
Yuxin Gong1, Kun Liu1, Na Hu1
1Nursing of College, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, China.
Purpose:
The study aimed to describe the reliability and validity of the Arousal Predisposition Scale (APS) among undergraduate students.
Design And Methods:
A cross-sectional design was conducted in a sample of 690 undergraduate students, and all the data were analyzed by SPSS20.0 and AMOS22.0.
Findings:
Two-factors model were got by using exploratory factor analysis, and the communalities of the items were 0.608 ~ 0.831, explaining 72.595% variance. With confirmatory factor analysis the fit indices were: chi-square/degree of freedom = 2.736, comparative fit index = 0.965, goodness of fitness index = 0.940, adjusted goodness of fit index = 0.908, incremental fit index = 0.965, root mean square error of approximation = 0.072, Tucker Lewis index = 0.955, rootmean residual = 0.017, all the standards achieved adaption. The internal consistency reliability was 0.903, correlation coefficient of every item and total scale ranging from 0.612 to 0.740.
Practice Implications:
The Arousal Predisposition Scale can be used to evaluate the arousal situation among undergraduate students.
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