1. Psychometric Validation of the Youth Social Capital Scale in Greece.
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Koutra, Kleio, Orfanos, Philippos, Roumeliotaki, Theano, Kritsotakis, George, Kokkevi, Anna, and Philalithis, Anastasios
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HIGH school students , *STATISTICAL correlation , *DISCRIMINANT analysis , *FACTOR analysis , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *SCALES (Weighing instruments) , *SELF-evaluation , *TRANSLATIONS , *SOCIAL capital , *MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques , *RESEARCH methodology evaluation , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *ADOLESCENCE ,RESEARCH evaluation - Abstract
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 (response rate 96.3%). The validation of the scale included both internal consistency and construct, convergent and discriminant validity tests. Results: Exploratory factor analysis yielded five social capital factors. The overall Cronbach’s α was coefficient .771. Factor analysis revealed common patterns for many questions between the Greek and the original scales. Conclusions: This article supports the validity of the YSCS for assessing the social context of young individuals in Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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