Open AccessAdaptasi Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) versi Bahasa Indonesia
Author(s) -
Ramadhan Dwi Marvianto,
Wahyu Widhiarso
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gadjah mada journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2407-7798
DOI - 10.22146/gamajop.45785
Subject(s) - indonesian , scale (ratio) , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , test (biology) , construct validity , standard deviation , validity , statistics , criterion validity , mathematics , applied psychology , psychometrics , geography , cartography , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , paleontology , philosophy , power (physics)
This study aims to adapt the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) into Indonesian language. Data collection using online survey on 617 high school students in Yogyakarta. The analyzed property includes discrimination indices, mean, and standard deviation for item level. At test level, the analyzed property are validity and reliability. Procedure of adaptation performed following adequate adaptation guidelines. Findings on the psychometric property evaluation show adapted AMS has satisfactory discriminating indices, mean, and standard deviation of items. At the test level, Adapted AMS has reliability values ranging from 0.73 to 0.90. Contruct validity test shows satisfactory results. This is seen from the results of inter-dimensional correlations that show a simple pattern as in research conducted by the original scale’s maker. Thus, Indonesian version of AMS has satisfactory construct validity and produces reliable scores, so it can be used.