2015 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 33-42
We developed a questionnaire with 19 questions on peer relationships in junior high school. These questions were created to depict the characteristic peer relationships of students who have failed to adjust to school life. Through repeated factor analyses, we found that the questionnaire consisted of four factors. We ascertained that the internal consistency reliability was almost acceptable (Cronbach’s , 0.669 to 0.774). The questionnaire results were significantly correlated with those from another measure assessing peer friendship in junior high school students, suggesting that criterion-related validity was established. The four factors obtained in the current study were very different from those found in other published studies. As the questionnaire may be useful for psychological assessments of students who struggle to adjust to school life, investigating this questionnaire’s test-retest reliability and construct validity is necessary.
