Currently, I am adapting the Workforce Agility scale adapted to Indonesian language and culture. To provide further clarification for items, I am adding contextual information within parentheses "()" to them for better understanding aside from the original translated items. Is this permissible?
For example:
1. Saya senang bekerja sama dengan orang lain (baik dengan tim yang sama ataupun lintas departemen/fungsional)
2. Saya suka mengambil tanggung jawab atas berbagai urusan di tempat kerja (selain tugas-tugas yang menjadi tanggung jawab saya)
In my opinion, if you add anything to the original scale you should do at least a new partial validation. The key is to check that adding new content to the original statements does not cause them to measure of something different than was intended on the original scale. This can be done, for example, by the method of competent judges. You should check the validity of the changed statements.
beside the point and the method Mr.Wojcik recommended, I think a back-translation would help, ex. maybe you've translated the items from English to Indonesian, now you translate them back from Indonesian to English by someone else, to find out if the Indonesian translation implies the meaning intended in English.
sometimes it is necessary to add some information or clarifications when translating a test from another language, due to cultural differences, which plays a big part in the results of the test. but as Mr.wojcik mentioned, partial validation should be carefully watched.
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