Desain Alat Ukur Motif Merantau pada Tiga Kelompok Etnik di Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia has value of migration which parents teach to their children. Thereare three big ethnic groups in Indonesia which have different orientation on value ofmigration. Bataknese mainly migrate for study, Minangnese mainly migrate for workand trading, and Sundanese do not have a certain value of migration, although they domigrate. The aim of this article is to design an instrument for measuring migration motiveon Bataknese, Minangnese, and Sundanese. The migration motive scale was tested usingSEM to see fitness between conceptual model and empirical model. It was also testedusing EFA to explore factor analysis. Results showed the scale has 5 factors and adequateinternal consistency. The five factors are: traits needed when migrating, importance ofgoing out of the hometown, importance of having plan when migrating, importance ofbeing able to adjust, and importance of being successful when migrating.