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Validation of the Adolescent Social Identity Measure: Adolescents’ Perception of Themselves in a Social Context

Annemaree Carroll , Julie M. Bower , Jenny Povey , Sandy Muspratt , Holly Chen

Social identity is an important social determinant of student outcomes such as mental health and well-being. Currently, no validated social identity m.

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Social identity is an important social determinant of student outcomes such as mental health and well-being. Currently, no validated social identity measures exist for adolescents in secondary school settings. A new ‘Adolescent Social Identity’ measure was developed by adapting two social identity dimensions from a validated reputation enhancement scale. The Social Identity Measure comprises two scales of 10 items each to measure how adolescents think their peers view them (e.g., reputational status) in terms of their conforming and nonconforming behaviour (Self-perception of Public Self) and how adolescents would ideally like to be viewed (Ideal Public Self) by peers. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted along with assessments of reliability, validity, and measurement invariance. Conforming and Nonconforming subscales for both scales were shown to be reliable, valid, and invariant across age and gender groupings. There were significant but small differences in the latent means for gender.

Keywords: Adolescents, confirmatory factor analysis, social identity, validation.

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