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Validity and Reliability Analysis of the ‘SayangKU’ (MyLove) in Intervention for Addressing Adolescents Involved in Free Sex

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A module entitled ‘SayangKU’ (MyLove), based on the Islamic perspective, was developed as an instrument to assist adolescents that involved in premarital sexual activity. The module comprises four phases: Love of God (Allah), Love of the Prophet, Love of Oneself, and Love of the Ummah (world). From analysis of Rasch, the value of item reliability was .80 and an individual reliability was .95. Dimensionality value was more than 40 % variance explained by measures, and level of agreement among experts was 86.88 %. The posttest shows the better result from pretest and proves the effectiveness of the module.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Faizah Abd. Ghani, Adibah Abdul Latif & Aqeel Khan

  2. Language Academy, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Azian Abd Aziz

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Ghani, F.A., Latif, A.A., Aziz, A.A. et al. Validity and Reliability Analysis of the ‘SayangKU’ (MyLove) in Intervention for Addressing Adolescents Involved in Free Sex. J Relig Health 54, 1375–1386 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-014-9935-y

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