Citation

Cutbush S, Williams J. J. Res. Adolesc. 2016; 26(4): 918-926.

Affiliation

RTI International.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/jora.12244

PMID

28453195

Abstract

This study investigated measurement invariance by gender among commonly used teen dating violence (TDV), sexual harassment, and bullying measures. Data were collected from one cohort of seventh-grade middle school students (N = 754) from four schools. Using structural equation modeling, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses assessed measurement models and tested measurement invariance by gender for aggression measures. Analyses invoked baseline data only. Physical and psychological TDV perpetration measures achieved strict measurement invariance, while bullying perpetration demonstrated partial strict invariance. Electronic TDV and sexual harassment perpetration achieved metric/scalar invariance. Study findings lend validation to prior and future studies using these measures with similar populations. Future research should increase attention to measurement development, refinement, and testing among study measures.

© 2016 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence © 2016 Society for Research on Adolescence.

Language: en