Reliability and validity of Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Checklist among Chinese middle school students living in rural areas
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2019.09.020
- VernacularTitle:青少年生活事件量表在中国农村中学生中的信效度评价
- Author:
HUANG Juan, YANG Xiaobing, YU Yizhen, YUAN Shanshan, HAO Wen, XIANG Jingjing, KANG Chun
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Author Information
1. Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan (430015), China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Life change events;
Questionnaires;
Students;
Rural population
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2019;40(9):1353-1355
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To re-evaluate the reliability and validity of the Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Checklist (ASLEC), and to adapt to the further application to middle school students in rural China.
Methods:A stratified random cluster sampling method was applied to select 15 607 adolescents from grade 7th to grade 12th in 15 rural areas of 5 provinces(Anhui Province, Yunan Province, Guangdong Province, Hei Longjiang Province, Hubei Province), and they were recruited to complete our Questionnaires.
Results:The revised version (ASLEC-R) consisted of 5 dimensions (punishment, interpersonal relationship, academic pressure, loss and adaptation problem), 25 items after deleting items 5 and 17 through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, which could accounted for 55.22% of the total variance. The fit indices were RMSEA=0.06，GFI=0.91，CFI=0.88，TLI=0.86，NFI=0.88，AGFI=0.88，HOELTER 0.05=261. The Cronbach’s α and Spearman-Brown splithalf reliability coefficient of the whole scale were 0.92 and 0.87, respectively，and the test-retest reliability was 0.84. ASLEC-R had better reliability than the unrevised version. The results of five-joint item analyses showed that each item improved in terms of indiscrimination, relevance, contribution, homogeneity and sensitivity. The correlation coefficients with BWAQ and EI subscale were 0.38 and -0.36 respectively.
Conclusion:ASLEC-R has good reliability and validity , and it is worth being applied to the Chinese rural areas.
