Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Upper Primary School Students’ Scales: Attractive Behavior, Behavior for Protecting Friends from Bad Things, and Emotional Control Behavior
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Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Attractive Behavior, Protect Friends from Bad Things Behavior, Emotion Control Behavior, Upper Primary School StudentsAbstract
The objective of this research was to examine the consistency between the structural model scales of attractive behavior, behavior for protecting friends from terrible things, and emotional control behavior for upper primary school students and empirical data. Samples consisted of 1,228 male and female students in upper primary schools in the Office of the Basic Education Commission, Bangkok Metropolitan administration, and the private education sectors. The research instruments were three questionnaires, tested by 5 experts for the content validity with indicies of item objective congruence: IOC of .80 – 1.00 and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of .75, 87 and .72, respectively. Descriptive statistics, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used for data analysis. The results showed that structural models of these scales had only one component and were consistent with the empirical data (χ2 = 4.90, df = 3, p = .18; χ2 = 12.34, df = 10, p = .26; χ2 = 6.42, df = 3, p = .093, respectively). The developed scales were appropriate for promoting student behaviors to prevent violence in family and society.
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