Abstract

VERA-BACHMANN, Daniela  and  GALVEZ, José Luis. Psychometric assessment of the criminal and violent behavior scale in the classroom, in chilean students. liber. [online]. 2014, vol.20, n.2, pp.325-334. ISSN 1729-4827.

Empirical evidence is reported on the psychometric properties of the Scale of criminal and violent behaviorin the classroom, in a sample of 877 Chilean high school students, between the ages of 13 and 20 (M = 15.94, DT = 1.31 ). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis have provided evidence of cross validity, corroborating the original twofactor structure; the violent behavior disruptive factor and the victimization factor. Measures of internal consistency and uniformity were satisfactory for both subscales, as well as their correlation with school social climate measures. It is concluded that this scale provides guarantee of reliability and validity for its use in Chile.

Keywords : Criminal violent behavior; school violence; construct validity; reliability.

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