Development and evaluation of juvenile campus violence questionnaire

Objective To develop a questionnaire on campus violence for adolescents and to evaluate its reliability and validity.Methods A total of 4 215 students were asked to complete the questionnaire and the data was analyzed using item analysis,exploratory factorial analysis,confirmatory factorial analysis,and the test of reliability and validity.Results The questionnaire included domains of physical violence and psychological violence.Physical violence was composed of five dimensions,including bullying,physical violence,tools violence,suicide,and sexual abuse and phychological violence was composed of four dimensions,including personal attacks,network violence,pressure building up,and verbal aggression.The total value of Cronbach α was 0.905;the values of Cronbach α for sub-questionnaires were above 0.82; the split-half reliability were 0.38-0.84 and the standard validity was significant(P<0.01),indicating the questionnaire with high validity and reliability.Conclusion The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were consistent to psychometric features,indicating the questionnaire could be used in surveys on campus violence.