چکیده:
This study aimed at evaluating the factor validity of the Kearny school refusal
assessment scale-revised: parent version among parents of school students in Urmia City, Iran.
Methods: The study population comprised students in the first, second, and third grades of
elementary schools in Urmia (N=18750). Of them, 351 students from 5 schools were selected
using a multistage cluster sampling method. Then, They responded to the Kearny school
refusal assessment scale-revised: parent version. To assess the construct validity of this scale,
confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency were used.
Results: The goodness of fit index of the confirmatory factor analysis model indicated a
relatively good fit of the data with factor structure of the school refusal assessment scale-revised
and confirming the existence of four characters of school stimulus, evaluative situations,
seeking caregivers’ attention, and tangible reinforcements, as school refusal characters. Also,
the Cronbach alpha coefficient values indicate the stability of the measurement of the whole
scale as well as its subscales.
Conclusion: Based on these results, the school refusal scale has good statistic characters and
the 4-factor mentioned model has good construct validity and help clinicians to determine the
symptoms and causes of school refusal behavior.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: Psychometric Properties of School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised: Parent Version in Iranian Population Khoshdavi Ebrahimzadeh1/, Farhad Ghadiri Sourman Abadi1*/, Soraya Anvari Anbi2, Karim Abdolmohamadi3 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
Results: The goodness of fit index of the confirmatory factor analysis model indicated a relatively good fit of the data with factor structure of the school refusal assessment scale-revised and confirming the existence of four characters of school stimulus, evaluative situations, seeking caregivers’ attention, and tangible reinforcements, as school refusal characters.
com 123 April 2020, Volume 8, Number 2 Highlights Investigating on the psychometric properties of the Persian version of School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised: Parent Version (SRAS-R-P) SRAS-R-P has good statistic characters The four factors mentioned model have good construct validity and help clinicians using this tool to deter-mine the symptom and causes of school refusal behavior.
Children who do not attend school are faced with a wide range of problems, such as dropouts, ODD, conduct disorder, sexual dysfunction, delinquency, sleep disor-ders, other mental problems (Egger, Costello, & Angold, 2003; Terada, Matsumoto, Sato, Okabe, Kishimoto & UchiTomi, 2012; Hochadel, Ferolich, Waiter, Lemkuhl, Oerkermann, 2014), educational problems, family problems, and dispute with school authorities (Kearney, Chapman, & Cook, 2005).
The present study was conducted to evaluate the confirmatory factor analysis and the internal consistency of the school refusal assess-ment scale-revised: parent version.