Psychometric Properties of WhatsAppUse and Perceived Academic Performance: An Exploratory Factor Analysis

Abstract

This paper presents validation study to determine psychometric adequacy of a measure of WhatsApp use and students’ perceived academic performance. A sample of 200 undergraduate students from Northwest University Kano was drawn through convenient sampling technique. The internal consistency of the measure was found to be adequate with .779. In addition to that, the instrument revealed acceptable psychometric properties and three divergent factors were identified that reflect the use of WhatsApp and students’ perceive academic performance. The factors labeled as “academic communication”, “perceived academic performance” and “learning enhancement” explaining 33.75%, 15.31%, and 11.09% of the variances respectively. Moreover, the instrument demonstrates factorial validity, construct validity and structure of measures of constructs and the three factors solution explain 60.16% of total variance.