QUESTIONNAIRE “AGE-STATUS SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF ADOLESCENTS”: THEORETICAL AND PSYCHOMETRIC SUBSTANTIATION

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to present the questionnaire “Age- status self -awareness” in the aspect of its psychometric testing. Procedure and research methods: The main content of the study is the psychometric justification of the author’s questionnaire “Age-status self-awareness of adolescents”. In two samples, the authors conducted a factor analysis of the results of the answers to the questionnaire items using the principal component method, analyzed the internal consistency of the Kronbach questionnaire, as well as the retest reliability and partial construct validity Results: Based on the study, the four-factor structure of the questionnaire was revealed: “a feeling of adulthood”, “unwillingness to grow up”, “a feeling of changeable-intermediate status”, “satisfaction with age”. The presence of high internal consistency on the scales “unwillingness to grow up” and “satisfaction with age”, moderate on the scale “feeling of adulthood” and weak on the scale “sense of changeable-intermediate status” is shown. The high retest reliability of all scales and the presence of construct validity on the scales “feeling of adulthood”, “unwillingness to grow up” and “satisfaction with age” was also found. Theoretical / practical relevance: The authors proposed an instrument for assessing the psychological aspects of adolescent attitudes toward adulthood in the arsenal of research methods in the fields of developmental psychology, social psychology and personality psychology.

Keywords

• growing up
• adolescence
• adolescent self-awareness
• sense of maturity
• age-status self-awareness
• questionnaires