Abstract: Humans are
creatures of conflict (homo conflictus), which are creatures who always seek
differences and competition, whether in physical opposition or ideas, both for
positive and negative purposes (Novri, 2019). Various social phenomena,
conflicts will always exist in every society because antagonism or differences
are a characteristic of the formation of a society (Syarifuddin, 2019). The
effects of the results of the GE-15 are becoming increasingly evident among
various races who are fighting for the struggle of their respective political
parties. Resistance to current political issues is not only confined to
politicians, but also to every race, especially to the youth who are still
inexperienced in the political arena of the country. Therefore, the youth or
youth group is not left behind in embracing the current issues of national
politics. This study was conducted to develop and validate an instrument based
on the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) process to measure the construct
Measure the Maturity of Malay and Chinese Youth on Current Political Issues in
Malaysian Public Universities. This study used a quantitative research method
based on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to analyze the various
relationships between variables in the study model. Before the data was
analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), Exploratory Factor Analysis
(EFA) was conducted to identify the suitability of the items used in the study
instrument. This study describes in detail the procedure for conducting
Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) for each construct. The findings of this
study show that the validity values based on Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO), Total
Variance Explained (TVE), Factor Loading and reliability values based on
Cronbach's Alpha, have met all the required values.
Keywords: Validity, Reliability, Youth Maturity, Current
Political Issues