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Psychometric properties, validity and insights of the School Bullying Questionnaire (CIE-A) in secondary schools of the Valencian Community (Spain)
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11 (2021), PLoS ONE, Useche, Sergio A. Valle Aparicio, José Eliseo Valle Escolano, Raquel Colomer Pérez, Natura 2021 Psychometric properties, validity and insights of the School Bullying Questionnaire (CIE-A) in secondary schools of the Valencian Community (Spain) Plos One 16 11 1 21, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0259392 (2021), RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- Besides its several threats to health, welfare, social and academic development and performance of kids and teenagers, school bullying remains highlighted as one of the most relevant related challenges for educational, behavioral and legal sciences worldwide. Moreover, the lack of research on the field and the crucial but unattended need to count on psychometrically suitable and valid tools to detect school bullying make difficult understanding its contexts, dynamics and possible solutions. Objective The aim of this study was to thoroughly present in detail the psychometric properties and validity issues of the School Bullying Questionnaire (CIE-A) among secondary students. Methods A regionwide sample of 810 (47.2% girls) secondary students attending to 21 schools across the Valencian Community (Spain), aged M = 14.40 (SD = 1.61) years, responded to a paper-based questionnaire containing the 36-item version of the CIE-A and various scales related to psychosocial health and wellbeing, used as criterion variables. Results The outcomes of this study suggest that the CIE-A has a clear factor structure, an optimal set of item loadings and goodness-of-fit indexes. Further, that CIE-A has shown good internal consistency and reliability indexes, coherent associations with other mental health and academic performance variables, and the possibility to assess gender differences on bullying-related factors among secondary students. Conclusion The CIE-A may represent a suitable tool for assessing bullying in a three-factorial approach (i.e., victimization, symptomatology, and intimidation), offering optimal psychometric properties, validity and reliability insights, and the potentiality of being applied in the school environment. Actions aimed at improving the school coexistence and the well-being of secondary students, targeting potential bullied/bully profiles or seeking to assess demographic and psychosocial correlates of bullying among teenagers, might get benefited from this questionnaire. The authors would like to thank the participants and institutional stakeholders involved in the data collection. We should especially thank the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government) and its associates for their permanent collaboration during the data collection phase, and their valuable advising. Finally, we would like to acknowledge Dr. Boris Cendales for proofreading the final version of the manuscript.
- Subjects :
- Questionnaires
Male
Psychometrics
Educación
Social Sciences
Validity
Sociology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Child
Reliability (statistics)
Measurement
Schools
Multidisciplinary
Seguretat viària
Intimidation
Mental Health
Research Design
Engineering and Technology
Medicine
Female
Psychosocial
Research Article
Clinical psychology
Social Psychology
Adolescent
Science
Sample (statistics)
Estadística
Research and Analysis Methods
Education
Young Adult
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Humans
Students
Set (psychology)
Behavior
Psychological and Psychosocial Issues
Survey Research
Biology and Life Sciences
Bullying
Reproducibility of Results
Mental health
Psicología
Health Care
Spain
Sociología
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8a0c85396a8ef1288868c028dae8139c