Perceptions of School Personnel Helping Scale (Edwards et al., 2017)
- Populations: Adolescents, Young Adults
- Age ranges: 13-19
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Items taken from Factor Loading reporting table and may not be exact to final instrument
- Staff would tell a group of boys calling a girl a “slut” to stop
- Staff would physically intervene in a physical fight between couples
- Staff would verbally tell a couple in a physical fight to stop
- Staff would verbally tell a couple in a verbal fight to stop
- Staff would talk to teens about getting help
- Staff would talk to teens about health relationships
- Staff would gossip to other teachers about what teens tell them
- Staff would comfort a teen who is a victim of abuse
- Staff would get help for a teen who is a victim of abuse
Responses
Items used a 4 point Likert-type scale, 1 = no school staff, 4 = all school staff
Scoring
Not Reported
Citations
Edwards, K. M., Banyard, V. L., Sessarego, S. N., Stanley, L. R., Mitchell, K. J., Eckstein, R. P., Rodenhizer, K. A. E., & Leyva, P. C. (2018). Measurement tools to assess relationship abuse and sexual assault prevention program effectiveness among youth. Psychology of Violence, 8(5), 537–545. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000151
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Unknown: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Unknown: Readability
Definitions
Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.
Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.
Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.
Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.
Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).
Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.
Key
- Green: Meets validation criteria
- Red: Does not meet validation criteria
- Unknown: Evidence not available