DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF SCALE APSPA FOR EFFECT OF SLEEPING PATTERNS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The present study investigates the effects of sleeping patterns on the academic performance of university students through the development and validation of the Academic Performance and Sleep Pattern Assessment (APSPA) scale. The study's objective is to construct a reliable and valid instrument to measure the intricate relationship between sleep habits, academic interest, engagement, and mental well-being. A panel of 14 experts reviewed the initial 50 items, leading to the removal of 14 items with a content validity ratio below 0.45. The refined 36-item questionnaire was administered to university students via Google Forms distributed through WhatsApp groups. Exploratory factor analysis with varimax rotation confirmed the scale's validity, yielding three factors. The scale demonstrated good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.791), and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure and Bartlett's test of sphericity indicated the sample's adequacy for factor analysis.