Psychometric Properties of the School Bullying Victimization Scale for Primary School Students.
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School Bullying Victimization Scale, Primary School StudentsAbstract
The current study aimed to develop a School Bullying Victimization Scale (SBVS) and validate its psychometric properties. The final version of SBVS consisted of 30 items. It was administered to a sample of 459 primary school students (245 boys and 214 girls) in the Asir Education Directorate in Abha, their ages ranged between 11 and 12 years (Mage 11.75 ± .43). The validity of SBVS was assessed using content validity and construct validity. Internal consistency was also examined for both the subdimensions and the overall scale. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) revealed three main factors: physical bullying victims, verbal bullying victims and social bullying victims, each of them involved 10 items. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the findings of EFA, demonstrating that the fit indices for the confirmatory model were within acceptable limits. Additionally, all standardized factor loading exceeded .5 and were statistically significant (p<.01). Reliability of SBVS was established using Cronbach’s alpha and split-half reliability methods, both for the subdimensions and the overall scale.
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