Recently, when competency issues takeover in Outdoor Malaysia landscape, it's been question among the outdoor practitioner and also outdoor organization in Malaysia how about the level of competency leaders in outdoor in Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is no tools in measures the competency level of outdoor leaders compare to the others develop country. In that case, it's invited the question how far the Malaysian Outdoor Leaders competency. Furthermore many accidents involved in Outdoor education and Outdoor recreation program affect the credibility of them. Meanwhile, this article is to explain the scenario and issues in develop the new assessment instrument of competency outdoor education leaders in Malaysia.

There are numerous studies that have found adventure-based program intervention has potentially linked towards the development of psychological aspects, including mental toughness. This study aims to validate Adventure-based Mental Toughness Inventory (AbMTI) through SEM analysis. A total of 371 degree’s level students from several higher institutions were involved as respondents. The final valid data is 357 hence 14 respondents have been removed due to outliers in normality analysis. A total of 67-items representing 7 dimensions of AbMTI was analysed and purified. The data were analysed through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Cronbach’s Alpha reliability. Through CFA measurement, the modification indices (MI) examination was conducted. Overall, the final analysis results from CFA-SEM indicates AbMTI has achieved a significant validation value. Four (4) validation analysis was applied such as standard loading (>.50), construct reliability (CR>.60), Cronbach Alpha (α>.70), and average variance extracted (AVE>.50). The final AbMTI consisted of seven (7) constructs and 38-items were validated to tap adventure-based mental toughness. Findings from this study have confirmed AbMTI as valid instruments for assessing mental toughness. It is also considered as the new horizons in mental toughness measure.

A new landscape of adventure-based program demonstrated it linked to positive psychological aspects outcomes, including mental toughness. These benefits go beyond traditional character-building concepts of adventure-based programs. In Malaysia, there are numerous adventure-based programs conducted by many levels of organizations with aims to improve participants’ mental toughness. Unfortunately, there are very limited studies conducted on how to design a specific instrument of the adventure-based mental toughness program. The conceptual issues identified as main interest in this regard is identify the need to develop adventure-based mental toughness inventory among Malaysian outdoor practitioners. The study based on the Develop and Design Research (DDR; Saedah, Muhammad & Rozaini, 2020). IBM Statistic (SPSS) utilized as the main statistical analysis software. A total of 85 respondents (N=85) among active outdoor practitioners have purposively been selected. Based on the analyses, overall, 93% of agrees was achieved for all statements in the survey (with IQR= .0 -1.99). These findings provided a platform from which to foster coherent and systematic scholarly work on adventure-based program and mental toughness development.