Exploring academic resilience among vocational students; development of measurement tools

Abstract

Vocational students have a greater capacity to overcome academic adversity, and the role of academic resilience is essential to positive academic outcomes and future careers. Exploring the academic resilience of vocational school students requires valid and reliable measurement tools. This study aims to develop a measurement tool for academic resilience in Indonesian vocational school contextsand its evidence validation. This study involved 206 students from various vocational fields in several public vocational schools in Kupang City, Indonesia, with a multistage sampling technique. Twenty-item academic resilience measurement tools were utilized. Validate of the construct was assessed with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and Alpha Cronbach for reliability. The results demonstrated by both the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test and Bartlett’s test confirm adequate data. EFA highlights the single-factor model. A total of twelve items were removed, and eight items were qualified, with the highest loading factor score of 0.816 and the lowest score of 0.547. The reliability confirms the high category (0.96). The whole procedure resulted in a measurement tool of eight items to assess academic resilience and contributed to evaluating the efficacy and treatment in Indonesian vocational schools. © 2025, Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Author Keywords

Vocational education academic resilience psychometric properties Measurement tools Scale development

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Author Affiliations

Department of Guidance and Counseling, Universitas Nusa Cendana, Kupang, Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Department of Guidance and Counseling, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Bali, Indonesia

Funding & Acknowledgements

Institute of Public Administration Australia, IPAA

Funding text 1: The research related to human use has been complied with all the relevant national regulations and institutional policies in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration and the study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Public Health-Universitas Nusa Cendana (Number: 2023066-KEPK). The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [IPAA], upon reasonable request.; Funding text 2: This research received partial financial support for publication fees from the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Nusa Cendana, through the Grant of Article Publication Fees, Universitas Nusa Cendana, under Grant No. 19/KU/2024.

Universitas Nusa Cendana

Grant: 19/KU/2024

Funding text 1: The research related to human use has been complied with all the relevant national regulations and institutional policies in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration and the study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Public Health-Universitas Nusa Cendana (Number: 2023066-KEPK). The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [IPAA], upon reasonable request.; Funding text 2: This research received partial financial support for publication fees from the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Nusa Cendana, through the Grant of Article Publication Fees, Universitas Nusa Cendana, under Grant No. 19/KU/2024.

Grant: 2023066-KEPK

Funding text 1: The research related to human use has been complied with all the relevant national regulations and institutional policies in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration and the study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Public Health-Universitas Nusa Cendana (Number: 2023066-KEPK). The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [IPAA], upon reasonable request.; Funding text 2: This research received partial financial support for publication fees from the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Nusa Cendana, through the Grant of Article Publication Fees, Universitas Nusa Cendana, under Grant No. 19/KU/2024.

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Exploring academic resilience among vocational students; development of measurement tools

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