Design and Validation of a Scale Measuring Attitudes toward Refugee Children

Georgia Angelidou, Eva María Aguaded-Ramírez and Clemente Rodríguez-Sabiote
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Georgia Angelidou: Department of Research Methods and Diagnostics in Education, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Eva María Aguaded-Ramírez: Department of Research Methods and Diagnostics in Education, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Clemente Rodríguez-Sabiote: Department of Research Methods and Diagnostics in Education, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: 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 α 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.

Keywords: scale validation; refugee children; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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