Psychometric properties of the Add Health School Connectedness Scale for 18 sociocultural groups

• DOI: 10.1002/pits.20609
• Publication Date: 2011-11-02T16:59:29Z
• Authors: Michael J. Furlong; Lindsey M. O'brennan; Sukkyung You
• Keywords: Social Connectedness

Abstract The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health's School Connectedness Scale (SCS) has been widely used in psychological, public health, and education research, but undergone limited psychometric analysis. This study the responses 500,800 junior senior high school students who completed biennial California Healthy Kids Survey, which includes SCS. results supported use SCS as a unidimensional measure showed that it acceptable reliability (α = .82 to .88) concurrent validity ( r .44 .55) across 18 sociocultural groups. A series multiple group analyses confirmed configural, metric, scalar equivalence shows promise measurement instrument for psychologists; however, further research is needed examine its underlying latent connectedness construct. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.