Validity of Three School Climate Scales to Assess Bullying, Aggressive Attitudes, and Help Seeking

Autor/inn/en	Bandyopadhyay, Sharmila; Cornell, Dewey G.; Konold, Timothy R.
Titel	Validity of Three School Climate Scales to Assess Bullying, Aggressive Attitudes, and Help Seeking
Quelle	In: School Psychology Review, 38 (2009) 3, S.338-355 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0279-6015
Schlagwörter	Middle School Students; High School Students; Help Seeking; Bullying; Factor Structure; Social Environment; Surveys; Attitude Measures; Measures (Individuals); Incidence; Factor Analysis; Validity; Regression (Statistics); Grade 9; Goodness of Fit; Evaluation Criteria; Student Attitudes; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Mobbing; Faktorenstruktur; Soziales Umfeld; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Messdaten; Vorkommen; Faktorenanalyse; Gültigkeit; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	The School Climate Bullying Survey (Cornell & Sheras, 2003) is a self-report survey used to measure attitudes and behaviors associated with school bullying. Two studies were conducted to examine the valid use of its three school climate scales: (a) Prevalence of Teasing and Bullying, (b) Aggressive Attitudes, and (c) Willingness to Seek Help. In Study 1, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed with a sample of 2,111 students from four middle schools and established reasonable fit for 20 items with their hypothesized scales. Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses revealed good overall model fit. In Study 2, regression analyses using school-level measures aggregated from 7,318 ninth-grade students attending 291 Virginia public high schools indicated that the three scales were related to meaningful criteria for school disorder. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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