Assessing the measurement characteristics of prominent social, emotional and behavioral skills among rural Indian girls
Tiwari, Ananya
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Title
Assessing the measurement characteristics of prominent social, emotional and behavioral skills among rural Indian girls
Author(s)
Tiwari, Ananya
Issue Date
2020-11-23
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Napolitano, Christopher
Department of Study
Educational Psychology
Discipline
Educational Psychology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
socioemotional skills
sense of belonging
grit
self-esteem
adolescence
India
Abstract
There is converging evidence that adolescents’ social, emotional and behavioral (SEB) skills, or the beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that allow youth to manage self and social relationships, predict academic success and long-term life outcomes (Almlund et al., 2011; Paunesku et al., 2015). However, this evidence is drawn primarily from Western societies (Sánchez Puerta et al., 2016) and measures of SEB skills have been validated largely for European and U.S. contexts (Jones et al., 2019) The purpose of this research is to conduct psychometric testing of measures of prominent SEB skills like the sense of belonging, grit and self-esteem among highly marginalized rural adolescent Indian girls. The factor structure, reliability, and validity were examined among 663 Indian adolescent girls. Results provided evidence that each construct could be modeled using a single latent factor; however, reliability for grit was low. In addition, grit and a sense of belonging were associated with higher school-reported grades. This study adds to the growing literature on socio-emotional skills and issues related to measurements in the majority world.
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