Is the Online Friendship Scale Fit for High School Students?

Avin Fadilla Helmi

doi:10.22146/gamajop.57605

Is the Online Friendship Scale Fit for High School Students?

Avin Fadilla Helmi

(Submitted 6 July 2020)

(Published 27 October 2020)

Abstract

Online friendship is an inevitable phenomenon especially for young people for which Helmi et al. developed a concept and an online friendship scale with university students as their trial subject. From a developmental perspective, university students are in the early adulthood stage. With the Internet’s asynchronous nature and the absence of non-verbal cues, the scale was applied to high school students in this present study. The purpose of this study was to test whether or not the online friendship scale has sound psychometric properties when applied to high school students. The subjects of this study were 214 high school students. The results of the structural equation model analysis met the goodness of fit criteria for construct validity, which include TL, GFT, and RMSEA indices. Its Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient was also satisfying. A drive to create activities with friends on social media mitigates the lack of non-verbal signs resulting from online communication. This result supports the social enhancement hypothesis. Consequently, Online Friendship Scale can be implemented in adolescence and young adult.

Keywords

adolescent; construct validity; online friendship scale; reliability

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