A Validity and Reliability Study of the SocioVirtualization Perception Scale (SVPS)

Year 2014, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1 - 19, 01.06.2014

Özgen Korkmaz , Ertuğrul Usta , İbrahim Kurt

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.14.01.1.1

Abstract

Individuals
are socialized by embracing material and spiritual cultural characteristics
that a society possesses. This process is put into practice with socialization
factors such as family, peers, school and media. Interaction and communication
in social life have started to carry socialization factors to different levels
with contribution by virtual environments in our day. Since determination of
the level of interaction and relationships shifting from real life to virtual
life is not yet a sufficiently discussed issue in the body of literature, we
could not come across an instrument of measurement, whose reliability and
validity have been proved, for measuring levels of what sort of transformations,
advancements and developments have been experienced in terms of socialization
factors after society’s beginning of turning to virtual environments. In this
respect, the research objective is to develop a scale for determining levels
for relationships of individuals in social life shifting to virtual
environments. 294 individuals constitute the research study group. Exploratory
and confirmatory factor analysis, item-factor total correlation, adjusted
correlation and distinguishing features of items were calculated for
investigating validity of the scale. Internal consistency coefficient and
stability levels of the scale were calculated for investigating reliability of
the scale. As a result, the SVPS is a 5-point Likert scale that can be grouped
under three factors and consists 30 items. Analyses put forward that this scale
is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring levels of socio-virtualization
perception of a society’s individuals in virtual environments.

Keywords

Socialization, Socio-virtualization, Scale development

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