Connectedness among taiwanese middle school students: a validation study of the hemingway measure of adolescent connectedness |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Michael?J?KarcherEmail author Yun?Lee |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Texas, USA;(2) Ta-Yuan Junior High School, Taiwan;(3) College of Education and Human Development, University of Texas at San Antonio, 501 West Durango Blvd., Office 4.314, 78207 San Antonio, Texas |
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| Abstract: | Theories of adolescent connectedness suggest that adolescents strive to become connected by engaging with and valuing the
people, activities, and worlds in their social ecology. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties
of a measure designed to assess these worlds of connectedness among 320 junior high school students in Taiwan. The subscales
and composite scales evidenced satisfactory reliability and concurrent validity. A hypothesized three-factor, higher order
structural model of connectedness was cross-validated. Girls were generally more connected than boys. Both connectedness to
school and to friends explained more variance in connectedness to self than did family connectedness. There was mixed support
for separation-individuation processes. The measure appears promising in terms of future research on adolescent social development
in the Asia Pacific. |
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