Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia
This article discusses a study on empowerment of a group at risk via social media in Malaysia which focuses on five important dimensions namely economy, social and cultural, legal, political, and psychology.The group at risk focused in the study refers to women.The study employed a survey that uses...
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| author | Abdul Hamid, Norsiah Ishak, Mohd Sobhi Yusof, Norhafezah |
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| description | This article discusses a study on empowerment of a group at risk via social media in Malaysia which focuses on five important dimensions namely economy, social and cultural, legal, political, and psychology.The group at risk focused in the study refers to women.The study employed a survey that uses a set of online questionnaire distributed to women who are actively using social media, particularly social networking sites.This study involves a sample of 1,307 respondents in an exploratory study, in which a 5-factor 24-item instrument to measure empowerment comprising of the five hypothesised dimensions were being developed.Results confirm factor structures of the empowerment model and suggest a more parsimonious instrument for each; a 5-factor 15-item scale for social media empowerment, as compared to the result of pilot study conducted.Goodness-of-fit indices for the model are presented.The result shows that the five dimensions are significant to the empowerment model of women in Malaysia.The findings can contribute greatly to a better understanding of the empowerment mechanism behind social media issues pertaining to women. |
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| spelling | uum-197442016-11-16T07:31:26Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/19744/ Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia Abdul Hamid, Norsiah Ishak, Mohd Sobhi Yusof, Norhafezah HM Sociology T Technology (General) This article discusses a study on empowerment of a group at risk via social media in Malaysia which focuses on five important dimensions namely economy, social and cultural, legal, political, and psychology.The group at risk focused in the study refers to women.The study employed a survey that uses a set of online questionnaire distributed to women who are actively using social media, particularly social networking sites.This study involves a sample of 1,307 respondents in an exploratory study, in which a 5-factor 24-item instrument to measure empowerment comprising of the five hypothesised dimensions were being developed.Results confirm factor structures of the empowerment model and suggest a more parsimonious instrument for each; a 5-factor 15-item scale for social media empowerment, as compared to the result of pilot study conducted.Goodness-of-fit indices for the model are presented.The result shows that the five dimensions are significant to the empowerment model of women in Malaysia.The findings can contribute greatly to a better understanding of the empowerment mechanism behind social media issues pertaining to women. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/19744/1/JK%2032%201%202016%2073%2086.pdf Abdul Hamid, Norsiah and Ishak, Mohd Sobhi and Yusof, Norhafezah (2016) Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia. Jurnal Komunikasi = Malaysian Journal of Communication, 32 (1). pp. 73-86. ISSN 2289-151X http://www.ukm.my/jkom/journal/pdf_files/2016/V32_1_4.pdf |
| spellingShingle | HM Sociology T Technology (General) Abdul Hamid, Norsiah Ishak, Mohd Sobhi Yusof, Norhafezah Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia |
| title | Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia |
| title_full | Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia |
| title_short | Assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in Malaysia |
| title_sort | assessing validity and reliability of social media as an empowerment tool for a group at risk in malaysia |
| topic | HM Sociology T Technology (General) |
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