ERIC Number: EJ1461081
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jan
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1522-7227
EISSN: EISSN-1522-7219
Available Date: 2025-02-20
The Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale in Children Aged 10 and 12 from 30 Countries: Analysis from Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
Infant and Child Development, v34 n1 e70003 2025
This study evaluates the Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale (CW-PSWBS) within a diverse international cohort of children aged 10 and 12, utilising Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) methodologies. Through a detailed psychometric analysis, this research assesses the CW-PSWBS's structural integrity, focusing on its unidimensionality and measurement invariance across gender and age groups. The study also analyses the scale's item discrimination and difficulty levels using IRT. Participants: The sample consisted of children from 30 countries, aged 10 and 12 years, offering a broad perspective on psychological well-being across different cultures and developmental stages. The CW-PSWBS demonstrates a unidimensional structure, ensuring consistent measurement across genders and age groups. The scale's items exhibit strong discrimination and appropriate difficulty, highlighting its effectiveness in capturing the latent trait of psychological well-being, particularly at low and average score ranges. Validated by a comprehensive analysis grounded in both CTT and IRT, the CW-PSWBS emerges as a reliable tool for assessing the psychological well-being of children aged 10 and 12 across a wide array of cultural contexts. The study affirms the scale's robustness and cross-cultural validity, making a significant contribution to the field of child psychology.
Descriptors: Well Being, Rating Scales, Children, Item Response Theory, Psychometrics, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Difficulty Level, Developmental Stages, Foreign Countries, Validity, Cultural Context, Child Psychology, Psychological Patterns
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Instituto de Investigación Sobre Calidad de Vida (IRQV), Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain; 2Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; 3Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondon, Ecuador; 4University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland