The Factor Analysis, validity, Reliability and Standardization of Teacher Violence Scale (TVS) among High School and Pre University Students

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Tahereh Pazhoohi ¹ , Mohammad Ali Nadi ²

1 - دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی تربیتی، واحد اصفهان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان (خوراسگان)،ایران
2 - دانشیار گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشکده علوم‌تربیتی و روانشناسی، واحد اصفهان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان (خوراسگان)، ایران

Received: 2015-11-21 Accepted : 2016-08-15 Published : 2017-08-23

Keywords: Reliability, validity, high school students, teacher violence, factor construction,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was to construct and validate the teacher violence scale, which measures different forms of violent behaviors displayed by teachers against students. 374 students were selected from Gachsaran through randomized categorical sampling as a sample, which responded to Piskin et al.ʼs (2014) teacher violence scale and Nadi and Alsafiʼs (2013) teachersʼ retaliatory behaviors questionnaire. The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients were found to be 0.90 for the entire scale, and 0.87, 0.79, 0.85, 0.72 and 0.77 for physical violence, taunting, critics, oppress and sexual violence respectively. The exploratory factor analysis of the scale showed that it has five factors with opimal fit indices (p>0.05). Moreover, this scale can be used as a diagnostic instrument to determine the extent of teacher violence at schools