Validation of item pool for early adolescents’ emotional skills assessment in music therapy

IF 1.6 4区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI:10.1080/08098131.2023.2245433

Maija Salokivi, Sanna Salanterä, Suvi Saarikallio, E. Ala-Ruona

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Abstract

Introduction: Evaluating the validity of the content is an essential step in developing an assessment tool, including an analysis of the quality of the items within the tool. This study describes the content validation of items in the early adolescents’ emotional skills assessment tool in a music therapy context. Methods: Content validity was evaluated based on relevance scores provided by two expert panels. Psychometric scores were obtained by calculating item-specific content validity index (I-CVI), scale-specific content validity index (S-CVI) and modified kappa score. In addition, the coverage and understandability of the items were evaluated. Results: The validation process identified 60 valid items distributed across six components of emotional skills: expressing, monitoring, identifying, understanding, regulating and the ability to use emotional information. Item I-CVI scores ranged from 0.80 to 1.00, the scale content validity index (S-CVI) was 0.95, the modified kappa score ranged from 0.65 to 1.00, item coverage at scale level was 1.00, and item under-standability was 0.92. Discussion: The items developed in the study have high validity and are scientifically grounded. The items can be a first step towards a validated assessment tool to evaluate emotional skills in early adolescents. The added value of this study is that the set of items developed is the first to cover all the components of emotional skills identified in the literature. Therefore, music therapists can use the items to observe in more detail the different dimensions of emotional skills in early adolescents.

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音乐治疗中早期青少年情绪技能评估项目池的验证

简介:评估内容的有效性是开发评估工具的必要步骤，包括对工具内项目质量的分析。本研究描述了音乐治疗背景下早期青少年情绪技能评估工具中项目的内容验证。方法:根据两个专家小组提供的相关性评分评估内容效度。心理测量得分通过计算特定项目内容效度指数(I-CVI)、特定量表内容效度指数(S-CVI)和修正kappa评分得到。此外，还对题目的覆盖面和可理解性进行了评价。结果:在情绪技能的表达、监控、识别、理解、调节和使用情绪信息的能力六个组成部分中，共鉴定出60个有效项目。量表I-CVI得分范围为0.80 ~ 1.00，量表内容效度指数(S-CVI)为0.95，修正kappa得分范围为0.65 ~ 1.00，量表水平上的项目覆盖率为1.00，项目可理解性为0.92。讨论:研究中开发的项目具有高效度和科学依据。这些项目可以成为评估青少年早期情感技能的有效评估工具的第一步。这项研究的附加价值在于，开发的一套项目是第一个涵盖文献中确定的所有情感技能组成部分的项目。因此，音乐治疗师可以使用这些项目更详细地观察青少年早期情绪技能的不同维度。

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Nordic Journal of Music Therapy REHABILITATION-

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期刊介绍： Nordic Journal of Music Therapy (NJMT) is published in collaboration with GAMUT - The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (Uni Health and University of Bergen), with financial support from Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences and in co-operation with university programs and organizations of music therapy in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy serves the international community of music therapy by being an avenue for publication of scholarly articles, texts on practice, theory and research, dialogues and discussions, reviews and critique. Publication of the journal is based on the collaboration between the music therapy communities in the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the three Baltic Countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This international but still regional foundation offers a platform for development of communication with the broader international community of music therapy. Scholars from all over the world are welcomed to write in the journal. Any kind of scholarly articles related to the field of music therapy are welcomed. All articles are reviewed by two referees and by the editors, to ensure the quality of the journal. Since the field of music therapy is still young, we work hard to make the review process a constructive learning experience for the author. The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy does not step aside from active engagement in the development of the discipline, in order to stimulate multicultural, meta-theoretical and philosophical discussions, and new and diverse forms of inquiry. The journal also stimulates reflections on music as the medium that defines the discipline. Perspectives inspired by musicology and ethnomusicology are therefore welcomed.