Design and Validation of a Scale Measuring Attitudes toward Refugee Children
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Materia
Scale validation Refugee children Education
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2019-05-16Referencia bibliográfica
Angelidou, G., Aguaded-Ramírez, E. M., & Rodríguez-Sabiote, C. (2019). Design and Validation of a Scale Measuring Attitudes toward Refugee Children. Sustainability, 11(10), 2797.
Resumen
The aim of this study was to design, develop, and validate a questionnaire evaluating
attitudes toward refugee children. Method: The questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS Software
version 21.0 (IBM Corp., 2012, Armonk, NY, USA). Results: Cronbach’s a was greater than 0.9.
According to an expert’s review, the instrument provided arithmetic means higher than 2.5,
the dimensions evaluated had interclass correlation coefficients greater than 55, and the corrected
correlation values of the item-total were greater than 0.35. Conclusions: The Attitude Questionnaire
toward Refugee Children was found to be an adequate instrument for better understanding and
measuring the attitudes of host countries’ citizens toward refugee children.