Developing a scale for value orientations of rural youth in Fayoum Governorate

The current study aims to build a quantitative scale for the value orientations of rural youth in Fayoum Governorate, so that it has acceptable indications of reliability and validity. The data necessary to standardize the scale has been collected From 200 respondents out of the total number of rural youth in the selected villages )Sinover, Ibjig, and Talat( in the Fayoum Center, They were selected in a systematic random manner distributed over the three study villages, The data of the scale were completed by conducting personal interviews with the respondents using a questionnaire form, It included the statements related to the proposed scale. The results of standardizing the scale showed that it has a high degree of reliability and validity, where the value of the reliability coefficient using three different statistical methods: the half-segmentation method using the Spearman-Brown equation, the Guttmann equations, and the internal consistency by Cranach's method, were 0.765, 0.778, and 0.797, respectively. In addition to the above, the results showed a high level of validity of the scale formation, Where the value of the correlation coefficient between the level of the value orientation of the respondents using the proposed scale, And one of the variables that is theoretically assumed to be morally related to the value orientation )which is the educational level( is about 0.87, It is a statistically significant value at the 0.01 probability level, which indicates a high level of validity of the formation of the proposed measure of value orientations.