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Development of an Adolescent Risk‐Taking Instrument
Author(s) -
BUSEN NANCY H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.1991.tb00512.x
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , content validity , measure (data warehouse) , clinical psychology , psychology , medicine , psychometrics , computer science , data mining , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
The purpose of this research study was to estimate the reliability and content validity of an instrument designed to measure risk‐taking in adolescents. Six subscales containing 69 items were developed to measure the adolescent's perception of risk‐taking. Subjects consisted of 75 male and female adolescents enrolled in a vocational training program. Support for reliability was obtained by the use of Chronbach's alpha correlation coefficient for the subscales and the Risk‐Taking Instrument.