Development of social capital scale for poverty-alleviation relocated elderly and its reliability and validity test
GUO Yuting
YANG Le
LI Zeyuan
CHENG Jingmin
Abstract：Objective:To develop a social capital scale for poverty-alleviation relocated elderly and test its reliability and validity.Methods:Based on the social capital evaluation item system constructed by our research group in the early stage,a social capital scale for poverty-alleviation relocated elderly was constructed through expert inquiries.A total of 1 874 elderly from 24 poverty-alleviation relocation resettlement areas in Shanxi province were selected for household surveys.Results:The social capital scale for poverty-alleviation relocated elderly was developed,which included 6 dimensions and 33 items.Exploratory factor analysis extracted 6 common factors with feature roots>1,with cumulative contribution rate of 61.892%.The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the performance factor loadings of each item on the corresponding factors were ranged from 0.389 to 0.965 after adjustment,and the chi-square degree of freedom ratio was 2.962,comparative goodness of fit index was 0.923,Tucker-Lewis index was 0.912,root mean square residual was 0.046,standardized root mean square residual was 0.044,item-level content validity index were ranged from 0.800 to 1.000,average scale-level content validity index was 0.953.The total Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.926,and the split half reliability coefficient was 0.660.Conclusions:The social capital scale for poverty-alleviation relocated elderly has high reliability and validity,and can be used as a measurement tool for the social capital of poverty-alleviation relocated elderly.
Keywords：poverty-alleviation relocatedelderlysocial capitalscalereliabilityvalidity
Publication Date：2024-05-25
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 1719-1725 )