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A Validation of The Student Disengagement Scale among Undergraduates in India

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Ms. Gagandeep Kaur, Dr. Nimisha Beri
ยป doi: 10.33472/AFJBS.6.6.2024.1615-1625

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Disengagement from education means when a person feels excluded from college, does not participate in curricular and co-curricular activities, is not enrolled in higher education, or has poor attendance in class. Collins Dictionary states that disengagement is a process by which people gradually stop being involved in any conflict, activity, or organization. There are individual and institutional causes of disengagement among students. The problem of disengagement gives birth to various physical and mental issues which leaves an individual in isolation. To study disengagement among undergraduate students, The Student Disengagement Scale by Saito, Akihiro et. al. was revalidated. A 5-point Likert scale where 1 represents "never" and 5 represents "very often" was used for all items (never = 1, seldom = 2, sometimes = 3, often = 4, very often = 5). For the revalidation, 480 undergraduate college students from the science, commerce, and arts streams were chosen from Punjab state (Majha, Malwa, and Doaba region). After tool validation, this scale has 22 statements with four dimensions. There are 6 items in Behavioral Disengagement, 7 items in Emotional Disengagement, 5 items in Cognitive Disengagement, and 4 items in Social Disengagement. Ursin (2023)

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