Psychometric Examination of the Abbreviated Version of the Dual School Climate and School Identification Measure-Student (SCASIM-St15) in a Sample of Chilean Adolescents

dc.creatorLuis Galvez-Nieto, Jose
dc.creatorVera-Bachmann, Daniela
dc.creatorTrizano-Hermosilla, Italo
dc.creatorPolanco Levican, Karina
dc.creatorBriceno-Olivera, Claudio
dc.date2021
dc.date2021-04-30T16:43:35Z
dc.date2021-04-30T16:43:35Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-14T22:04:59Z
dc.date.available2021-06-14T22:04:59Z
dc.identifierFRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,Vol.12,,2021
dc.identifierhttp://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/3363
dc.identifier10.3389/fpsyg.2021.576051
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/3300110
dc.descriptionSchool climate is a multidimensional construct that has been related to a series of psychological, social, and school variables. The dual school climate and school identification measure-student (SCASIM-St) is a measure that has a multidimensional factor structure, with four first-order factors and a second-order factor, plus an independent factor that evaluates school identification. However, the SCASIM-St is long, with 38 items measuring school climate. The first objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of reliability and validity of the abbreviated version of the dual school climate and school identification measure-student (SCASIM-St-15), for use in contexts with time limitations or for explanatory studies that need to apply multiple instruments simultaneously. The second objective was to analyze the degree of invariance for the groups: sex, type of education, and age. The sample was made up of 2,044 students of both sexes (49.1% women and 50.9% men), with a mean age of 14.64 (SD = 0.718), representing 27 secondary schools in Chile. The results indicated that the SCASIM-St15 presents adequate indicators of reliability and construct validity. Evidence of external criterion validity confirmed significant associations with the Attitudes to Institutional Authority in Adolescence Scale measure. The results of the factorial invariance analysis indicate that the SCASIM-St15 remains stable up to the level of metric invariance for the variable sex and the level of scalar invariance for the variables type of education and age. The study concluded that despite the significant decrease in the number of items, the SCASIM-St15 measures school climate in a reliable and valid way, without losing its theoretical and conceptual robustness.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherFRONTIERS MEDIA SA
dc.sourceFRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
dc.subjectschool climate
dc.subjectadolescence
dc.subjectschool identification
dc.subjectschool
dc.subjectvalidity
dc.subjectreliability
dc.titlePsychometric Examination of the Abbreviated Version of the Dual School Climate and School Identification Measure-Student (SCASIM-St15) in a Sample of Chilean Adolescents
dc.typeArticle


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