Development of a Measure of the Experience of Being Bullied in Youth

Autor/inn/en	Hunt, Caroline; Peters, Lorna; Rapee, Ronald M.
Titel	Development of a Measure of the Experience of Being Bullied in Youth
Quelle	In: Psychological Assessment, 24 (2012) 1, S.156-165 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-3590
DOI	10.1037/a0025178
Schlagwörter	Factor Analysis; Psychopathology; Evidence; Bullying; Depression (Psychology); Check Lists; Internet; Measures (Individuals); Self Esteem; Anxiety; Verbal Communication; Validity; Correlation; Foreign Countries; Victims; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenanalyse; Psychopathologie; Evidenz; Mobbing; Checkliste; Messdaten; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Angst; Gültigkeit; Korrelation; Ausland; Victim; Opfer; Australien
Abstract	The Personal Experiences Checklist (PECK) was developed to provide a multidimensional assessment of a young person's personal experience of being bullied that covered the full range of bullying behaviors, including covert relational forms of bullying and cyber bullying. A sample of 647 school children were used to develop the scale, and a 2nd sample of 218 children completed the PECK and a battery of measures of bullying (including peer nomination), anxiety, depression, and self-esteem, to provide validity evidence. Test-retest reliability was assessed in a further sample of 78 students. Four factors emerged from a principal axis factoring consistent with the domains of relational-verbal bullying, cyber bullying, physical bullying, and bullying based on culture and were confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis. The data also supported a higher order bullying factor with direct effects on these 4 factors. All PECK scales showed good to excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's [alpha] range = 0.78-0.91) and adequate test-retest reliability (range r = 0.61-0.86). Most, but not all, expected relations were found with alternative methods of assessing bullying and measures of psychopathology. Taken together, the PECK provides a promising comprehensive and behaviorally focused dimensional measure of bullying. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10