Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Interventio, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Interventio, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Sep;131:105690. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105690. Epub 2022 Jun 13.
Social safeness has been proposed as the individual's perception of the social world as being warmth and soothing. The lack of social safeness has been suggested as a transdiagnostic socio-emotional vulnerability for several mental health difficulties. To date there was no study addressing experiences of social safeness in adolescents.
To validate and study the psychometric properties of the Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale to Portuguese adolescents from community and residential care homes.
A total of 731 Portuguese adolescents from community and residential youth care homes participated on this study. The community sample was composed of adolescents recruited from regular schools (208 boys; 224 girls). The residential youth care sample was composed of adolescents placed in residential care homes (145 boys; 154 girls).
A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted, and measurement invariance investigated.
A one-factor solution presented a good fit across all samples and proved to be invariant (configural, metric, scalar and strict measurement invariance). Moreover, internal consistency values were excellent for all samples (α > 0.93) and evidence for construct validity in relation to external variables was found. Means comparisons revealed significant differences between all tested groups. Community adolescents reported higher social safeness in comparison to the adolescents placed in residential care. Within both samples, boys scored higher in the SSPS-A when compared to girls.
These findings provide evidence on the SSPS-A validity and its use across diverse adolescent samples.
社会安全感被定义为个体对社会世界的温暖和抚慰的感知。社会安全感的缺乏被认为是多种心理健康问题的跨诊断社会情感脆弱性。迄今为止，还没有研究探讨青少年的社会安全感体验。
验证和研究社会安全感和愉悦量表（Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale，SSPS-A）在社区和住宿青年照护机构的葡萄牙青少年中的心理测量特性。
共有 731 名来自社区和住宿青年照护机构的葡萄牙青少年参与了这项研究。社区样本由从正规学校招募的青少年组成（208 名男生；224 名女生）。住宿青年照护样本由安置在住宿青年照护机构的青少年组成（145 名男生；154 名女生）。
进行了验证性因素分析，并研究了测量不变性。
一个单因素解决方案在所有样本中都表现出良好的拟合，并且被证明是不变的（结构、度量、标度和严格的测量不变性）。此外，所有样本的内部一致性值都非常高（α>0.93），并且发现了与外部变量相关的结构有效性的证据。均值比较显示，所有测试组之间存在显著差异。与安置在住宿青年照护机构的青少年相比，社区青少年报告的社会安全感更高。在两个样本中，与女孩相比，男孩在 SSPS-A 中的得分更高。
这些发现为 SSPS-A 的有效性及其在不同青少年样本中的应用提供了证据。
