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Development of a Measure of the Experience of Being Bullied in Youth
- Source :
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Psychological Assessment . Mar 2012 24(1):156-165. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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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.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1040-3590
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Psychological Assessment
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ988312
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025178