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Title: Development and Validation of the Current Experiences of Warmth and Safeness Scale in Community and Residential Care Adolescents
Authors: Santos, Laura 
Sousa, Rúben 
Pinheiro, Maria do Rosário 
Rijo, Daniel 
Keywords: Warmth and safeness; Psychometrics; Measurement invariance; Adolescence; Residential care
Issue Date: 1-Nov-2020
Publisher: Springer Nature
Project: SFRH/BD/132327/2017 
metadata.degois.publication.title: Child Psychiatry & Human Development
Abstract: Interpersonal experiences of warmth and safeness have a key role on emotion regulation and social development during childhood and adolescence. This paper presents a new and brief scale designed to assess the adolescents’ perception of current experiences of warmth and safeness (CEWSS-A). Its dimensionality and psychometric properties were investigated using a Portuguese sample of 453 adolescents from the community and 319 adolescents from residential care facilities. A confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the 12-item scale has a one-factor measurement model. The CEWSS-A showed adequate internal consistency in the different samples (α > .92) and construt validity in relation to external variables. The CEWSS-A proved to be group invariant. Community adolescents reported a higher frequency of current experiences of warmth and safeness in comparison with residential care participants, and boys showed significantly higher scores than girls, within both samples. The CEWSS-A is an appropriate self-report measure for clinical and research purposes.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/115169
ISSN: 0009-398X
1573-3327
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-020-01090-6
Rights: embargoedAccess
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