Abstract
The present study aimed to develop a culturally relevant scale to assess the online truancy
among university students. Purposive sample of 350 university students was taken including
males (n = 152) and females (n = 198) with age range 19 to 28 years. Scale development
process consist of four steps that are, item pool generation , items evaluation and establishing
face validity, tryout and Exploratory Factor Analysis with Varimax Rotation was used on the
sample of university students to analyze the items and form a factorial structure. Exploratory
Factor Analysis yielded 6 factors based on six distinct domains. Significant item-to total
correlations were found, psychometric properties of the scale were also established and
validation analysis revealed convergent and divergent validity of the scale. Future implications
of the research in educational field have also discussed.