Romanian Translation And Linguistic Validation Of The Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior Scale (Arq-B)

Psychometric Validation of the Japanese Version of the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (CASSS) in Early Adolescents1,2

“…This finding indicated that the means and standard deviations obtained using the CASSS are comparable to those reported in other countries. As reference values, the mean for the overall score of the CASSS in Japan (277.6 AE 62.7 or 273.7 AE 55.4) was somewhat higher than that in the United States (271.8 AE 74.4 or 269.4 AE 49.2;Malecki et al, 2014), Turkey (264.1 AE 52.4;Yardımcı & Bas ¸bakkal, 2009), and Romania (256.6 AE 40.7;Chis ¸et al, 2017). In particular, the mean score of the classmate domain (54.5 AE 15.6 or 55.9 AE 13.8) in Japan was similar to that in China (52.8 AE 13.1 or 48.4 AE 11.6;Liu et al, 2016), but tended to be higher compared with the three other countries with mean scores below 50.…”

“…Furthermore, the measurement construct of the CASSS was found to be moderately associated with prosocial behavior and depression, and weakly associated with internalizing or externalizing problems (Demaray & Malecki, 2002; Malecki et al, 2014; Rueger et al, 2010). While studies have been conducted to translate the original English version into other languages, such as the Turkish (Yardımcı & Bașbakkal, 2009) and Romanian (Chiș, Copaci, & Rusu, 2017) versions, translation and validation of a Japanese version of the CASSS have not been conducted to date.…”