Adaptation of the Middle Scholl Form of the Player Types Scale for Gamification and Evidence of Measurement Invarience

Authors : Büşra Dinçer, İbrahim Yıldırım, Tuğberk Melen

Pages : 1324-1350

Doi:10.30561/sinopusd.1773498

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Publication Date : 2025-11-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study adapts the Player Types Scale for Gamification to the middle school level and examines its measurement invariance across the variables such as gender and technology device ownership. The study sample consists of 773 middle school students including 423 girls, 346 boys, and 4 participants who did not specify their gender. During the adaptation process, permission was initially acquired from the researchers who developed the instru-ment. In the next step, expert opinions from 10 different specialists, including one Turkish language expert, were collected. A pilot application was conducted with 10 students, revea-ling an average completion time of 20 minutes. Following the pilot application, the instru-ment was administered to 773 middle school students. For reliability, internal consistency coefficients α and ω were calculated for the entire scale. The factor structure was exami-ned using CFA. Analysis results indicated that fit indices exceeded acceptable levels. Mea-surement invariance analyses were conducted via MGCFA for gender and technology ownership variables. Results demonstrated that the scale achieved scalar invariance for both variables, but strict invariance was not supported by any of them.
Keywords : Oyuncu Tipleri, Oyunlaştırma, Ölçek Uyarlama, Ölçme Değişmezliği

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