ERIC Number: EJ988312
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Mar
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-1040-3590
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Development of a Measure of the Experience of Being Bullied in Youth
Hunt, Caroline; Peters, Lorna; Rapee, Ronald M.
Psychological Assessment, v24 n1 p156-165 Mar 2012
The Personal Experiences Checklist (PECK) was developed to provide a multidimensional assessment of a young person's personal experience of being bullied that covered the full range of bullying behaviors, including covert relational forms of bullying and cyber bullying. A sample of 647 school children were used to develop the scale, and a 2nd sample of 218 children completed the PECK and a battery of measures of bullying (including peer nomination), anxiety, depression, and self-esteem, to provide validity evidence. Test-retest reliability was assessed in a further sample of 78 students. Four factors emerged from a principal axis factoring consistent with the domains of relational-verbal bullying, cyber bullying, physical bullying, and bullying based on culture and were confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis. The data also supported a higher order bullying factor with direct effects on these 4 factors. All PECK scales showed good to excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's [alpha] range = 0.78-0.91) and adequate test-retest reliability (range r = 0.61-0.86). Most, but not all, expected relations were found with alternative methods of assessing bullying and measures of psychopathology. Taken together, the PECK provides a promising comprehensive and behaviorally focused dimensional measure of bullying. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Psychopathology, Evidence, Bullying, Depression (Psychology), Check Lists, Internet, Measures (Individuals), Self Esteem, Anxiety, Verbal Communication, Validity, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Victims
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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