Psychometric Analysis of the Perceptions of Sex Offenders Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Validity Correlates.
This study is a psychometric analysis of the Perceptions of Sex Offenders (PSO) scale, a reconceptualization of the Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offender scale. Using a student sample, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. The initial three-factor data-model fit was poor. To improve fit, o...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 641 - 664 |
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| Formato: | questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2026
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