Psychometric Indicators of High School Climate Scale with an Emphasis on Security, Commitment and School Environment

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

ezatolah ghadampour ¹ , leila Heidaryani ² , mahdi barzegarbefroui ³

1 - Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 - Ph. D. student in Psychology group, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
3 - Ph. D. student in Psychology group, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

Received: 2019-05-09 Accepted : 2020-07-11 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: Security, school environment, commitment, school climate,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate was Psychometric indicators of high school climate scale with an emphasis on security, commitment and school environment. For this purpose, 429 students (245 boys and 187 girls) from Meybod high school students were selected by cluster random sampling method and answered the Joe Questionnaire of Bradshaw School et al. (2014).Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis and AMOS 24 and SPSS 22 software.The findings show that there is a good three-dimensional model for school atmosphere, which includes three dimensions of security, commitment and school environment in 13 subscales. The commitment dimension includes teacher-student relationship subscales, student communication, academic engagement, relationship with the whole school, fairness and equality, parental engagement, and the school environment dimension includes sub-scales of tasks and roles, school environment cleanliness, emotional support, Disorder and disorder in school.Findings from confirmatory factor analysis showed that this model has a good fit.Also, the reliability coefficients of these 13 subscales were obtained as 0.68 and 0.87, which indicates the acceptable and appropriate reliability of this scale. According to the obtained results, it can be said that the school climate questionnaire has a favorable validity and reliability by focusing on the three dimensions of security, commitment and environment in Iranian society