Evaluation of School Climate Behaviors in the School Context: CONVIVE Questionnaire. Issue 5 (July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ruiz-Hernández, José Antonio; Ruiz-Fernández, Carmen María; Pina López, David; Llor-Zaragoza, Laura; Pagán-Escribano, María; Jiménez-Barbero, José Antonio; Puente-López, Esteban
• Is Part Of: Youth & society. Volume 54:Issue 5(2022)
• Page Start: 833
• Page End: 857
• Publication Date: 2022-07
• Subjects: school violence -- school climate -- adolescence -- child -- questionnaire; Youth -- Periodicals; 305.235
• DOI: 10.1177/0044118X21997852
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0044-118X

Abstract

School climate research has traditionally been carried out by separating its two main components, prosocial and antisocial behaviors. This is often a partial view of the school climate. Hence, the goal of this study is to develop an evaluation instrument (CONVIVE) that takes into account both perspectives of the school climate through a dual-strategy design, psychometric and non-experimental, cross-sectional, and descriptive-comparative. The sample includes 600 Primary and Secondary Education students from a southeastern region of Spain. Exploratory and Confirmatory Factorial Analysis fit indices were used for the psychometric study. The result is a 26-item instrument (CONVIVE) made up of four scales that evaluate antisocial and prosocial behaviors, both performed toward others and received by peers: Prosocial Behavior Actor, Prosocial Behavior Receiver, Antisocial Behavior Actor, and Antisocial Behavior Receiver . These behaviors differ as a function of sex and the educational stage.