Exploring the Dimensionality of Digital Citizenship Behaviors of Undergraduate Students at a Malaysian Public University
1. Abstract of Emerging Trends in Scientific Research, 2015, Vol.4
DOI: 10.18488/journal.1002/2015.4/1002.4
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Exploring the Dimensionality of Digital Citizenship Behaviors
of Undergraduate Students at a Malaysian Public University
Fuad A.A.Trayek1
--- Tunku Badariah Tunku Ahmad2
--- Mohamad Sahari Nordin3
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Mohammed AM Dwikat4
--- Enas Said Ali Abulibdeh5
--- Hytham Mohmmad Bany-Issa6
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Hammood Msayar Jebur7
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Kulliyyah of Education, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Abstract
This paper examined the underlying structure of Malaysian undergraduate students’
digital citizenship behaviors, and hence the multidimensionality of the construct. An
exploratory factor analysis, i.e. Principal Axis Factoring with Promax rotation, was applied
on the digital citizenship data obtained from a survey of two hundred and thirty-five (N =
235) undergraduate students from one public university in Malaysia. The instrument was
a 22-item Likert questionnaire measuring digital citizenship developed from Ribble's
conception of digital citizenship. The results revealed six distinct but interrelated factors
that supported five of Ribble's digital citizenship dimensions, namely Digital Commerce,
Digital Security, Digital Etiquette: Adherence to Classroom Ethics, Digital Etiquette:
Adherence to Privacy & Credibility Rules, Digital Rights and Responsibilities, Digital
Communication. Together these six dimensions explained 54% of the variance. These
findings provide support for the multidimensionality of the digital citizenship construct.
