1Assistant Professor, Centre for Management Education, Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management, Pune
2Scientist, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
3Scientist, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai
4Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, N.A.U., Waghai, Gujrat
Online published on 12 April, 2019.
Attitude is increasingly being recognised as an important aspect to identify ones preference towards particular thing. The present study has undertaken to evaluate the psychometric properties of a scale developed to measure attitude. The specific development and validation processes used were: item analysis, content and face validity, construct validity using factor analysis, reliability and internal consistency using test-retest reliability and Cronbach's alpha correlation coefficient. The exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors: pessimistic, utility, technical and efficacy perspective. The items on the Attitude Scale (AS) revealed factor loading ≥0.5. Reliability processes indicated that the AS is reliable: Cronbach's alpha o.91 for the overall AS and between 0.77–0.90 for the four sub-scales and test-retest revealed stability of the responses. The reliability measure has shown the internal consistency between the items of the scale. The final scale consists of 22 items and the psychometric indicated that it is valid and reliable.
aAQUAe-Agriservice, Attitude scale, ICT, Reliability, Validity
