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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 | Serial title, monograph or event: | 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 |
Appears in Collections: | FPCEUC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D CINEICC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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