The development of a resistance to school music scale

This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool measuring secondary school students’ resistance to school music. Construct and content validity studies based on expert reviews, principal component analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity, divergent validity, and Horn’s parallel analysis were conducted to provide additional evidence within the scope of the study. For reliability studies, Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability analysis techniques were employed. A 15-item construct consisting of two factors, and explaining 63% of the total variance with their factor loadings ranging between 0.588 and 0.859 was obtained by evaluating the analyses conducted concerning the factor structure and Horn’s parallel analysis. When the sub-factors beneath the factor structure were examined, there were 11 items in the first sub-factor and four items in the second. In the model tested with the confirmatory factor analysis, the results showed that the convergent and divergent validity criteria were satisfied. Finally, it is thought that this research will contribute to the field of music education as the resistance of secondary school students to school music can be determined with the developed scale.