Psychometric validation of Arabic attention control scale: reliability, correlation, PCA, and CFA analyses

Abstract

The scarcity of reliable tools to measure attention control among Arabic speaking learners represents a key research problem. To address this gap, this study aimed to develop and evaluate the Arabic version of the attention control scale (ACS). The research was conducted on a sample of (N=210) Moroccan students in their second year of middle school (2023/2024), using precise translation methods, including “forward and backward translation”. The reliability of the scale was confirmed through Cronbach’s alpha (α=0.832), McDonald’s omega (Ʊ=0.820), and split-half reliability (ρ=0.870). The factor structure of the scale was verified using principal component analysis (PCA), while confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the model’s goodness of fit (χ2=1689.398, df=66, *p