Application of the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised (SRAS-R) to Regular Elementary School Children and an Investigation of its Validity(Original Articles)

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to develop a scale to assesses subjective extent of school refusal behavior of regular elementary school pupils from a functional analytic aspect. Sixth grade children (N=1,119) from 13 schools were assessed using the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised Japanese Version for Attendance at School (SRAS-R-JA) that was adopted for this study. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis revealed the good fitness of a correlated 4-factor model to the data. The scale was positively associated with the number of days absent from school, and was higher in the girls. This scale might be used for prevention or in assessment of the school refusal behavior among of pupils in Japan.