Article
Factor analysis of EMA-scale on adolescent adjustment from a developmental perspective: a short form
Author/s | Jiménez García, Lucía
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Menéndez Álvarez-Dardet, Susana Hidalgo García, María Victoria ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación |
Publication Date | 2018 |
Deposit Date | 2021-05-31 |
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Abstract | Many published instruments for assessing adolescent adjustment can be implemented
in the school context. However, most of them fail to include a comprehensive and
positive theoretical perspective of adolescent development ... Many published instruments for assessing adolescent adjustment can be implemented in the school context. However, most of them fail to include a comprehensive and positive theoretical perspective of adolescent development and, even when they do, priority is often given to the clinical perspective, or problems with ecological validity and cost-effectiveness emerge. The Magallanes Adaptation Scale is a 90-item Likert-instrument designed for Spanish-speaking adolescents in order to screen several adjustment areas from a holistic and positive perspective of development. Although some evidence of its psychometric robustness has been tested, no confirmatory analysis of its structure has been published. This paper analyzes the items and the factor structure (exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, using the split-half method) of the scales. Participants were 948 Spanish adolescents (49.84% girls) aged between 11 and 17 and stratified sampled. Thirty-six items were removed from the item analysis. The results of the exploratory factor analysis revealed five factors, excluding mother’s adaptation. Several models were tested during the confirmatory factor analyses, with a 24-item second-order four-factor solution being found to have the best adjustment indicators. The short version proposed in this paper can constitute a helpful tool with screening purposes to help school teachers to assess students’ overall development beyond mere academic performance, although further validity research is needed. |
Citation | Jiménez García, L., Menéndez Álvarez-Dardet, S. y Hidalgo García, M.V. (2018). Factor analysis of EMA-scale on adolescent adjustment from a developmental perspective: a short form. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 2406. |
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