Interplay of Cyber Victimization and Adolescents' Internalizing Symptoms Over Time

Investigating Construct Validity of the Cyber-Peer Experiences Questionnaire

“…Effective scale development, and thus effective measurement of constructs and latent variables, requires a series of statistical and design considerations that include item development, reliability, and construct validity. The subsections that follow will discuss each of these components in turn through theoretical and applied examples derived from the development of the C-PEQ (Landoll et al, 2015). Indicating the level of specificity or generality of the construct under study (e.g., social…”

“…With these guidelines in mind, it can be demonstrated that Landoll et al (2015) followed a similar process in constructing the C-PEQ's items. To explain, it is modeled after two psychometrically sound instruments that assess two constructs conceptually similar to cyberaggression (i.e., cybervictimization and relational/overt aggression; Fanti et al, 2012;Hemphill et al, 2013).…”

“…With regard to reliability and the C-PEQ instrument, prior research has provided evidence of good internal consistency reliability for the C-PEQ's cybervictimization items in a large adolescent sample from two high schools in a metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States (α = .78 -.82; Landoll et al, 2015). Further evidence for internal consistency reliability for the C-PEQ's cybervictimization items as well as novel internal consistency reliability evidence for the C-PEQ's cyberaggression items is still needed and was thus an aim for this paper.…”

“…To that end, the purpose of the present study was to explore psychometric validity evidence for a promising, but not yet fully examined, measure of cyberaggression and cybervictimization: the Cyber-Peer Experiences Questionnaire (C-PEQ; Landoll, La Greca, Lai, Chan, & Herge, 2015). The C-PEQ includes 18 total items on two subscales measuring cyberaggression and cybervictimization.…”

“…The C-PEQ includes 18 total items on two subscales measuring cyberaggression and cybervictimization. Although the primary focus of our study was to investigate psychometric properties of the cyberaggression items as prior work has only focused on the cybervictimization items of the C-PEQ (Landoll et al, 2015), we extended evaluation of the instrument to also include the set of cybervictimization items to consider how the scale's items operate as a whole. The ultimate goal of our exploration was to advance the field by furthering the development of effective instrumentation in measuring cyberaggression and cybervictimization.…”