Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America.
School of Marxism, Zhejiang Police College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
PLoS One. 2022 Jul 28;17(7):e0270974. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270974. eCollection 2022.
This study examined the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of a Chinese version of the 5-C Model of positive youth development (PYD), originally developed in the U.S., with a sample of rural and urban young adolescents in China. The Cs represent five youth strengths: competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection. The results of the exploratory factor analyses showed a reasonable data fit with the 5-C Model. The total and subscale scores evinced good internal reliability (α = .7 to .9) and the confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the convergence of the five Cs on a second-order latent factor of PYD, showing adequate goodness of fit (CFI = 0.94; TLI = 0.93; RMSEA = 0.04). Metric and scalar invariance were found across gender. Metric and partial scalar invariance were found for rural-urban groups. Supportive evidence on convergent and discriminatory validity was also found. We conclude that the Chinese version of the 5-C PYD Scale is a reliable and valid instrument, with good construct validity for Chinese young adolescents.
本研究采用中国农村和城市青少年样本，检验了美国最初开发的 5-C 积极青年发展模型（PYD）的中文版的维度、信度和效度。Cs 代表五项青年优势：能力、信心、品格、关爱和联系。探索性因素分析的结果表明，该模型与数据有较好的拟合。总量表和分量表得分具有较好的内部信度（α=.7 至.9），验证性因素分析也证实了五个 Cs 在 PYD 的二阶潜在因素上的收敛，表明拟合度良好（CFI=0.94；TLI=0.93；RMSEA=0.04）。性别之间存在度量不变性和标度不变性。城乡群体之间存在度量和部分标度不变性。还发现了对收敛和区分效度的支持性证据。我们得出结论，5-C PYD 量表的中文版是一个可靠和有效的工具，对中国青少年具有良好的结构效度。
