Validating the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale: Testing Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance across Child Gender and Age in a Dutch Sample

Autor/inn/en	Koomen, Helma M. Y.; Verschueren, Karine; van Schooten, Erik; Jak, Suzanne; Pianta, Robert C.
Titel	Validating the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale: Testing Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance across Child Gender and Age in a Dutch Sample
Quelle	In: Journal of School Psychology, 50 (2012) 2, S.215-234 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4405
DOI	10.1016/j.jsp.2011.09.001
Schlagwörter	Conflict; Factor Structure; Measures (Individuals); Factor Analysis; Indo European Languages; Measurement Techniques; Teacher Student Relationship; Goodness of Fit; Validity; Error of Measurement; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Teacher Attitudes; Children; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Konflikt; Faktorenstruktur; Messdaten; Faktorenanalyse; Indoeuropäisch; Messtechnik; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Gültigkeit; Messfehler; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Lehrerverhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Niederlande
Abstract	The Student-Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS) is widely used to examine teachers' relationships with young students in terms of closeness, conflict, and dependency. This study aimed to verify the dimensional structure of the STRS with confirmatory factor analysis, test its measurement invariance across child gender and age, improve its measurement of the dependency construct, and extend its age range. Teachers completed a slightly adapted STRS for a Dutch sample of 2335 children aged 3 to 12. Overall, the 3-factor model showed an acceptable fit. Results indicated metric invariance across gender and age up to 8 years. Scalar invariance generally did not hold. Lack of metric invariance at ages 8 to 12 primarily involved Conflict items, whereas scale differences across gender and age primarily involved Closeness items. The adapted Dependency scale showed strong invariance and higher internal consistencies than the original scale for this Dutch sample. Importantly, the revealed non-invariance for gender and age did not influence mean group comparisons. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10