Construction and Validation of Self-Management Scale for Undergraduate Students英文文献资料.docVIP

Creative Education 2011. Vol.2, No.2, 142-147 Copyright ? 2011 SciRes. DOI:10.4236/ce.2011.22020 Construction and Validation of Self-Management Scale for Undergraduate Students* Gang Xue , Xiaomin Sun 1 2# Department of Public Administration, Chinese Academy of Governance, Beijing, China; 1 2 School of Psychology, Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Email: sunxiaomin@bnu.edu.cn nd th th Received May 22 , 2011; revised June 10 , 2011; accepted June 16 , 2011. 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 1522 Chinese undergraduate students took the test. Explora- tory 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 crite- rion-related validity, while the validity of performance management needs further examination. Keywords: Self-Management, Social Cognitive Theory Introduction 1972). For the sake of clarity, the current study used self-mana- gement as the only term to describe the process of actively utilizing cognitive and behavioral principles to maintain bal- ance in life and to pursue