Psychometric Properties of the Add Health School Connectedness Scale for 18 Sociocultural Groups

Autor/inn/en	Furlong, Michael J.; O'Brennan, Lindsey M.; You, Sukkyung
Titel	Psychometric Properties of the Add Health School Connectedness Scale for 18 Sociocultural Groups
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 48 (2011) 10, S.986-997 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.20609
Schlagwörter	School Psychologists; Public Health; Validity; Measures (Individuals); Psychometrics; High School Students; Test Construction; Longitudinal Studies; Junior High School Students; Feedback (Response); Sociocultural Patterns; Reliability; Educational Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School psychologist; Psychologists; School; Schools; Schulpsychologe; Schulpsychologin; Psychologe; Psychologin; Psychologen; Schule; Gesundheitswesen; Gültigkeit; Messdaten; Psychometry; Psychometrie; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Testaufbau; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Junior High Schools; Sekundarstufe I; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Reliabilität; Erziehungspsychologie; Pädagogische Psychologie
Abstract	The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health's School Connectedness Scale (SCS) has been widely used in psychological, public health, and education research, but has undergone limited psychometric analysis. This study used the responses of 500,800 junior and senior high school students who completed the biennial California Healthy Kids Survey, which includes the SCS. The results supported the use of the SCS as a unidimensional measure and showed that it has acceptable reliability (alpha = 0.82 to 0.88) and concurrent validity (r = 0.44 to 0.55) across 18 sociocultural groups. A series of multiple group analyses confirmed configural, metric, and scalar equivalence across groups. The SCS shows promise as measurement instrument for school psychologists; however, further research is needed to examine its underlying latent school connectedness construct. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10