Perceptions of School Personnel Helping Scale (Edwards et al., 2017)

Perceptions of staff interventions to sexual assault in school settings from perspective of adolescents and young adults; 9 Items, Ages 13-19
  • 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

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