Students' Future Time Orientation as A Function of School Performance and Home Environment in Central Ethiopia: Instrument Development and Validation
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1993-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Sixty nine statements from different spheres of life, reflecting students'
future time orientation (FrO) were locally prepared, and administered to 500 grade
10 and 11 students from central Ethiopia. Item analyses through principal
component analysis and item-test correlation yielded 51 items and 16 FrO factors
with varimax rotation. The relationship between FrO scale versus students'
achievement, sex, dwelling, socio-economic status (SES), parents' level of education
and perceived intrinsic instrumentality (PI) was investigated. Employing stepwise
regression and X2 analyses a significant effect was found due to achievement and
PI. Separate as well as combined effects of the rest of variables were not significant.
Consequently, the scale can profitably be used for assessing strength of
motivation. Inspite of the developmental stage of adolescence that enables them
to assert the future events realistically, the present findings were interpreted with
respect to 'heuristic-bias' (Manger & Tiegen, 1988) that might have occured.
Further research directions particularly, for selecting significant variables
associated with FTO have been proposed
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