Title
Is It Possible to Measure the Role of the Bystander and the Victim of Bullying in Children? Construct Validity of Two Brief Pictorial Scales With IRT and CFA Models
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Herrera R.E.
Tomás J.M.
Herrera-López M.
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Inc.
Abstract
The study's objective was to develop and validate the psychometric properties of two brief pictorial scales to evaluate the roles of bystanders and victims of bullying. A sample of 910 students was considered (49.6%, boys; 50.4%, girls) between the ages of 7 and 13 (M = 10, SD = 1.4). Both instruments present nine pictorial items representing two dimensions: physical bullying (items 1 to 4) and psychological bullying (items 5 to 9). An additional measure of anxiety was used to assess convergent validity. The Confirmatory Factorial Analysis shows that the two-dimensional oblique model, physical bullying and psychological bullying, presents a better fit to the bystander scale data (RMSEA =.040; CFI =.984; SRMR =.033) and in the victim scale (RMSEA =.051; CFI =.978; SRMR =.040) in comparison to other competitor models. From the perspective of the Item Response Theory (IRT), it was found that the items adequately discriminate the levels of the latent variable; therefore, items 1 (physical bullying) and 7 (psychological bullying) are the most accurate on the bystander scale, and items 3 (physical bullying) and 7 (psychological bullying), on the victim scale. It was also found that the degree of difficulty on both scales is lower for the psychological bullying dimension than for the physical bullying dimension. Both instruments demonstrated good psychometric properties; therefore, they can detect school bullying in classrooms.
Volume
125
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ciencias sociales
Estadísticas, Probabilidad
Temas sociales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85112321115
PubMed ID
Source
Psychological Reports
ISSN of the container
00332941
Sponsor(s)
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Challenges Assistance Program Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, Spain [RTI2018-093321-B-100] and Program of Grants for Special Actions of the Research of the University of Valencia, Spain [AE18-777619].
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