MOTIVATION MUSIC INVENTORY RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY, FOR A ROMANIAN VERSION, IN A LARGE STUDENT SAMPLE

<doi>10.24250/jpe/1/2025/CVI/</doi>

Abstract

The present study sought to investigate second time
the MUSIC inventory reliability and structure validity but, in a
larger sample. Published research using multiple samples
indicated that MUSIC inventory had excellent Cronbach’s
Alpha values for each scale and the structure validly was
considered acceptable by more authors, even there have been
found higher correlations between its scales. The hypothesis was
that the students' perceptions measured using MUSIC inventory
would prove the reliability and construct validity of the
translated version. The sample of this study consisted of a
voluntary group of 215 students, mainly enrolled in the Master's
Programs: Educational Management - first and second year and
Psychopedagogy of Early Education - first and second year. The
study had a cross-sectional design. The structure of the study is
similar to the previous one, with the intention to make their
results comparable. Also, the same statistical analyses were
performed: reliability analysis (Cronbach’s Alpha), factor
analysis and correlation analysis. Interpretation of results from
this study suggested that the hypothesis of the study was again
only partially confirmed, reliability was proved by Cronbach
Alpha coefficients to be excellent (between ,946 - ,970) for all
scales. Related to the construct validity of the inventory, results
not confirmed the theoretical structure. Due to high correlation
among all MUSIC items, inventory theoretical structure is
susceptible not working properly in all samples.