Development and Validation of Attitudes and Practices Towards Online Feminism Scale

Abstract

Current study aimeds to develop a tool for assessing attitudes towards online feminism. The study comprised of four phases. First phase extracted item pool from the obtained themes of attitude towards online feminism, which assessed attitudes and practices towards online feminism scale (OFS).  Second phase evaluated items by subject matter experts to establish the face validity. Third phase carried out the development of online feminism scale (OFS) and determined its psychometric properties. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted performed on the sample of 200 social media users that resulted in a 32-items scale comprising of three subscales; pro feminist attitudes, anti-feminist attitudes, and feminist practices. The final phase of study determined convergent, discriminant, and contrasted group validity of OFS on the sample of 300 social media users (120 men; 180 women) such that their age ranges was from 17-30 years old (M = 22.13; SD = 3.61). The OFS subjected high internal consistency for full scale (α = .94) and for subscales that are; pro feminist attitudes (α = .93), anti-feminist attitude (α = .72) and feminist practices (α = .89). OFS thus yields a competitive factorial, convergent, discriminant, and contrasted group validity that proves it as psychometrically sound instrument.