Studiul calitatilor psihometrice ale unui chestionar de evaluare a fenomentului de bullying la elevi

The aim of this paper was to establish the psychometric properties (criterion validity and internal consistency) for the Romanian version of Students’ Self-Report Questionnaire (Stevens, de Bourdeaudhuij, Van Oost, 2000) that have been developed to measure bullying, victimization and positive behaviors of children. A sample of 210 pupils, aging between 10 and 14 years old was included in the study. Based on a peer-nomination procedure proposed by Zapan (1984) participants who received most nominations were assigned in two contrasting groups (e.g. high and low bullying tendencies). The results demonstrate a good criterion validity of the Questionnaire, both in terms of the three scales analysis (bully, victim, and positive behavior), and in terms of item analysis. The internal consistency of the three scales was .81 for the bullying scale, .63 for the victimization scale, and .72 for the positive behavior scale, all values indicating rather good psychometric properties for the Romanian version of the Questionnaire.