This pilot study aimed to identify the reliability of the Personal Wellness Questionnaire (PWQ) which is used as instrument to measure self-changes among Malaysian low-performing public service officers. This instrument consisted of 75 items divided into six sections; section A was demographics data, whereas sections B, C, D, E and F consisted of five sub-constructs of self-changes namely emotional, psycho-spiritual, social, cognitive, and behavioural adjustment. A total of 30 low-performing public service officers at a particular ministry in Putrajaya were involved in this pilot study. The Rasch Model version 3.72.3 was used to analyse the PWQ items, in which value of 0.89 was obtained for item reliability, and value of 0.95 was obtained for respondent reliability. These findings indicated that PWQ items were very good, in effective condition with a high level of consistency, and can be used in actual research. Several items were dropped because they did not match the correct constructs and did not comply with the criteria set by the researchers. The final instrument comprised of 51 appropriate items for measuring the five self-changes sub-constructs of the research target population.
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To Cite this Article: Bakar, A. Y. A., Hassan, H., & Amat, S. (2020). The Reliability Study of Personal Wellness
Questionnaire (PWQ) to Measure Self-Changes among Malaysian Low-Performing Public Service Officers.
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