The Attitude toward Child Rıghts Scale: Validity and Reliability Studies

Abstract

Determining the attitudes of children who have child’s rights toward their rights is crucial to revealing their viewpoint on their own rights. The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable attitude scale to determine the attitudes of children toward child’s rights. Study group of the study comprised a total of 610 students receiving education in grade three, grade four and grade five in Kırıkkale province. We performed the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on the data. The EFA determined that the scale comprised 19 items and four factors. These dimensions were named “Living”, “Development”, “Protection” and “Participation”. The CFA analysis confirmed the four-factor structure. The Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient was α .80 for the total scale, α .82 for sub-factor one, α .82 for sub-factor two, α .81 for sub-factor three and α .89 for sub-factor four. Also, we calculated item analysis statistics and total item correlations based on the difference of sub-super group averages within the scope of reliability analyses. There was a significant difference between the group with a higher attitude score and the group with a lower attitude score in the scale on the basis of item score and score average. The findings revealed international convention offers the same rights to all children across the world and that the scale can measure the attitudes of children toward their rights in a valid and reliable way.