Assessing Engineering Students’ Stress: Implementing the Psychometric Synonym Technique

Abdul Saman, Muhammad Jufri, Hillman Wirawan

2018

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the engineering student’s stress at a vocational-technical school and incorporating a psychometric synonym technique to screen student’s careless responses. This study introduced the implementation of data screening technique to identify the students with careless or effortless responses. Participants were 31 students (74.19% male) enrolling in the first and second year at the Vocational-Technical high school. The 33-item Likert-type stress scale was administered to the participants. The scale was well-constructed, and it satisfied the validity and reliability of an acceptable measure. The results suggested that the stress level varied with a mean score of 69.13 (SD= 13.20). However, 15 participants showed low personal reliability index (r< .22) and some of them had personal reliability with a negative value. These findings suggested that half of the participants potentially completed the questionnaire with careless responses.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Saman A., Jufri M. and Wirawan H. (2018). Assessing Engineering Students’ Stress: Implementing the Psychometric Synonym Technique.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 543-547. DOI: 10.5220/0008591805430547

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Abdul Saman and Muhammad Jufri and Hillman Wirawan},
title={Assessing Engineering Students’ Stress: Implementing the Psychometric Synonym Technique},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={543-547},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008591805430547},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - Assessing Engineering Students’ Stress: Implementing the Psychometric Synonym Technique
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Saman A.
AU - Jufri M.
AU - Wirawan H.
PY - 2018
SP - 543
EP - 547
DO - 10.5220/0008591805430547