The Development and Reliability-Validity Testing of School Readjustment Scale for Retired and Returning College Students

Objective To develop the readaptation scale of retired-returning college students, and tests its reliability and validity, which provides scientific quantitative index for the research of readaptation of retired-returning college students. Methods An open-ended questionnaire was used on 24 retired-returning college students; 631 questionnaires were distributed among the retired-returning college students, and 623 valid questionnaires were collected, and the school identity scale was used as criterion. Results (1) The analysis of exploratory factors found that the readjustment scale of retired-returning college students was composed of four dimensions: interpersonal readjustment, self-developmental readjustment, campus life readjustment and professional development readjustment, and the cumulative contribution rate of variance was 69.43%. (2) The results of the confirmatory factors analysis showed that the various fitting indicators of the data were good, χ2/df=2.39, GFI=0.86, NFI=0.91, CFI=0.94, IFI=0.94, TLI=0.94, RMSEA=0.068, SRMR=0.036. (3) The α coefficient of the scale was 0.97, the partial half reliability was 0.93, and the synthetic reliability of each dimension was between 0.88 and 0.92. (4) The school readjustment scale were significantly correlated with all dimensions of the school identity scale (P