Development of inferiority-compensation scale among high school students

BMC Medical Education

Research

Baiyang Qiu¹  Longli Luo²  Di Yang²  Lingxiao Li²  Jin Jiang²  Yanting Li²  Jing Meng²  Youkui Xia²  Xiaocui Liu² 

[1]Chongqing Youth Vocational & Technical College, Chongqing Youth Vocational & Technical College, Chongqing, China

[2]Key Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China

[3]Research Center for Brain and Cognitive Science, Chongqing Normal University, 401331, Chongqing, China

关键词: School students;    Inferiority-compensation;    Scale development;    Chinese;    Self-compensation;    Others- compensation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-022-03979-3

 received in 2022-06-10, accepted in 2022-12-21,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

An increasing number of high school students are inflicted by different degrees of mental disorders in learning, such as moodiness, learning difficulties, test anxiety, difficulty coping with frustration, etc., which are one of the factors leading to the inferiority of students. In the present study, the initial scale of inferiority compensation for high school students was developed through literature searching, expert evaluation, interviews, and an open scale. 1187 high school students were tested in different periods, after deleting an invalid 83 scales, including 461 copies of valid scale of exploratory factor analysis in the first stage and 643 copies of valid scale of confirmatory factor analysis in the second stage. The results showed that the inferiority compensation scale for high school students consisted of two sub-scale: self-compensation and others-compensation, ach two were composed of five dimensions including academic performance, physical fitness, social communication, appearance, and self-esteem. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the total scale and the two sub-scale all had good structural validity (RMSEA≤0.08; CFI&IFI ≥ 0.9), and the combined reliability and values (such as the correlation coefficient of each dimension) of the two sub-scale were within the ideal range. With good reliability and validity (Cronbacα&KMO ≥ 0.90), and meeting the requirements of psychometrics, the scale can be used in the relevant research and practice of inferiority compensation for high school students.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2023

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