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Minter, Anthony; Pritzker, Suzanne – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: This study examines the psychometric strength, including cross-ethnic validity, of two subscales of Muris' Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children: Academic Self-Efficacy (ASE) and Social Self-Efficacy (SSE). Methods: A large ethnically diverse sample of 3,358 early and late adolescents completed surveys including the ASE and SSE.…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Self Efficacy, Psychometrics, Test Validity
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Nsonwu, Maura Busch; Welch-Brewer, Chiquitia; Heffron, Laurie Cook; Lemke, Melinda A.; Busch-Armendariz, Noel; Sulley, Caitlin; Cook, Sharon Warren; Lewis, Mary; Watson, Elizabeth; Moore, Wayne; Li, Jilan – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: This study sought to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a tool designed to assess social work students' knowledge of and perceptions and attitudes toward human trafficking. To achieve this aim, the Perceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes toward Human Trafficking Questionnaire (PKA-HTQ) was developed and its psychometric…
Descriptors: Social Work, Questionnaires, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Chui, Wing Hong; Wu, Joseph; Kwok, Yan Yuen; Liu, Liu – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
This study examined the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the first part of the Chinese version of the CRIME-PICS II Scale, a self-administrated instrument assessing offending-related attitudes. Data were collected from three samples: male Hong Kong young offenders, female Mainland Chinese prisoners, and Hong Kong college students.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Questionnaires, Crime, Factor Structure
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Young, Daniel Kim-Wan; Ng, Petrus Y. N.; Pan, Jia-Yan; Cheng, Daphne – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: This study aims to translate and test the reliability and validity of the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness-Cantonese (ISMI-C). Methods: The original English version of ISMI is translated into the ISMI-C by going through forward and backward translation procedure. A cross-sectional research design is adopted that involved 295…
Descriptors: Self Concept Measures, Mental Disorders, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Test Reliability
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Kim, Youngmi; Kim, Kyeongmo; Lee, Shinhye – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: We tested the reliability and validity of the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children (SEQ-C) in a sample of children living in orphanages in South Korea. Methods: Our study sample consisted of 334 children aged 13-18 obtained using a convenience sampling method. We conducted a confirmatory factor analysis to identify the factor…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Self Efficacy, Institutionalized Persons, Adolescents
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Sanders, Jackie; Munford, Robyn; Thimasarn-Anwar, Tewaporn; Liebenberg, Linda – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: This article reports on an examination of the psychometric properties of the 28-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28). Methods: Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's a, "t"-tests, correlations, and multivariate analysis of variance were applied to data collected via interviews from 593…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Factor Analysis
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Lee, Sang Jung; Gopalan, Geetha; Harrington, Donna – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objectives: There has been little examination of the structural validity of the Parenting Stress Index--Short Form (PSI-SF) for minority populations in clinical contexts in the Unites States. This study aimed to test prespecified factor structures (one-factor, two-factor, and three-factor models) of the PSI-SF. Methods: This study used…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Stress Variables, Test Validity, Minority Groups
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Koutra, Kleio; Orfanos, Philippos; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Kritsotakis, George; Kokkevi, Anna; Philalithis, Anastasios – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objectives: This article describes the psychometric validation of the Youth Social Capital scale (YSCS) in 16- to 17-year-old students living in rural and urban areas in Crete, Greece. Methods: Sampling was performed among 27 secondary education units of Heraklion Prefecture. The self-reported questionnaire was answered by 692 participants…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Urban Areas
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Veronese, Guido; Pepe, Alessandro – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Objective: Professional social workers and emergency workers operating in war contexts may develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following exposure to traumatic events. Impact of trauma must be accurately assessed by researchers via robust models of measurement. In this article, measurement models for the 13-item Children's Revised Impact…
Descriptors: Violence, Military Personnel, Military Service, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Leung, Janet T. Y.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese Cultural Beliefs about Adversity scale (CBA). Methods: The CBA was administered in a sample of 275 Chinese parents experiencing economic disadvantage. Results: The CBA was found to be internally consistent. Consistent with the conceptual framework, factor…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Beliefs, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
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Casado, Banghwa Lee; Hong, Michin; Harrington, Donna – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
Objectives: The Migratory Grief and Loss Questionnaire (MGLQ) was designed to measure the grief experience associated with immigration. This article reports the development and psychometric properties of a Chinese-version of MGLQ. Methods: An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using maximum likelihood extraction with varimax rotation was conducted…
Descriptors: Grief, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics
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Levin, Lia; Peled, Einat – Research on Social Work Practice, 2011
Contemporary developments in social attitudes toward prostitution and prostitutes influence both social policies and the social work profession. Understanding individuals' attitudes toward these issues is necessary for the development of social interventions and policies aimed at reducing stigmata attached to them. This article describes a new…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Social Work