Psychometric Analysis of Media Literacy and Strengthening the Integrity of Youth Political Participation

New Media Literacy is a core literacy that guides media users to use the media in a sense of integrity. In addition, new media literacy is an ability to understand critically and produce content in the media. To spur national transformation in line with religious and cultural values, applying the integrity value of young people directly produces ethical leaders and reduces the tendency of immoral action in the country's political system. To test the value of integrity, a model of digital competency and media literacy was tested on 388 students from four Higher Education Institutions in Melaka namely Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Melaka Branch, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia, Melaka, Multimedia University, (MMU) Melaka and Kolej Islam Universiti Melaka (KUIM). New media literacy scale instruments are developed from digital significance modeling and media literacy models to test the integrity of young people through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and the establishment of the CFA Model of Media Literacy Scale. Findings show that multi-dimensional model of media literacy has achieved good matching accuracy and achieves convergence validity based on significant relationship of variables. This scale also achieves discriminatory and predictive validity that supports the Malay version of psychometric features. This study directly contributes to the formation of media literacy scales and understanding of new media literacy that is important for the community, government and media practitioners in interpreting and understanding messages.