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This version was published on November 1, 2007
Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 17, No. 6, 707-719 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1049731506299022
© 2007 SAGE Publications

The Reliability and Validity of a Group-Based Measure of Adolescents' Friendship Closeness

Blair Beadnell

University of Washington, blairb{at}u.washington.edu

Shauna K. Carlisle

University of Washington

Marilyn J. Hoppe

University of Washington

Kristin A. Mariano

University of Washington

Anthony Wilsdon

University of Washington

Diane M. Morrison

University of Washington

Elizabeth A. Wells

University of Washington

Mary Rogers Gillmore

Arizona State University

Darrel Higa

University of Washington

Objective: Six items were administered to a multiethnic sample of 435 middle school—age participants in a group-delivered safer sex intervention to determine their reliability and validity. Method: Exploratory analyses were followed by confirmatory factor analyses, and then correlations of scale scores with theoretically related variables were computed. Results: Findings favored a unidimensional scale with high internal consistency (with as few as two and as many as five items). Scale scores were generally related to other constructs as expected. Conclusions: The items show evidence of reliability and validity. In addition to the items' use in peer group research, the findings have implications for practice in terms of group leader training and facilitation, and the items' use as assessment tools.

Key Words: measurement • friendship • adolescence • intervention • multilevel


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