International Conference on Assessment and Learning (ICAL)

Publication Date

10-2022

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Keywords

Psychological testing, Stress (Psychology), Measures (Individuals)

Subjects

Psychological testing, Stress (Psychology), Measures (Individuals)

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Personality and Social Contexts | Quantitative Psychology

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Paper presented at ICAL 2022 — Transforming Assessment and Learning: Making the System Work!

13 - 15 October 2022, Bali, Indonesia

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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic demanded employees work from home (Ishak & Mangundjaya, 2020). The work-from-home regulation provides several advantages, including high work flexibility. However, this regulation also creates excessive workloads and requires employees to work overtime due to various challenges from superiors with short deadlines. This situation encouraged researchers to develop an accurate psychological scale to identify the employees/ working stress. The scale comprised physical and mental individual responses to managing their uncomfortable work environment. It consists of 48 items measuring four dimensions: role overload, role conflict, role ambiguity, and role responsibility. The participants responded to the items by sending their responses on a 6-point scale, whether s/he felt the sentences described their psychological state from absolutely appropriate (score 1) to absolutely inappropriate (score 6). We recruited 91 employees aged 21 to 36 years old. In the content validity test, three experts judged whether the items were relevant, simple, clear, and unambiguous. The S-CVI was in the range of 0.89 to 0.92, with an S-CVI average of 0.90. Corrected item-total correlation revealed that all items were valid with a coefficient range from 0.40 to 0.79. Cronbach's Alpha was 0.97. We concluded that the instrument was valid and reliable. We also simulated the norm to interpret the participant's obtained scores. We created a standardized interpretation of the scores by applying percentile 25 and 75 to have three categories: low, medium, and high.

City

Jakarta, Indonesia

Publisher

ACER Indonesia

ISBN

978-1-74286-697-0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.37517/978-1-74286-697-0-04

Geographic Subject

Indonesia

Item development and psychometric testing of Work Stress Scale

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