Development and Validation of Juvenile Vindication Scale

Author(s) : Fatima Sana 1, Muhammad Rafiq 2

Abstract:

The current study was focused on investigating the psychometric properties of the “Juvenile Vindication Scale (JVS)” in juvenile delinquents. Primarily, phenomenology was explored by asking an open-ended question for the item generation of the juvenile vindication scale. Further, the content validity of the scale was determined through expert evaluation and then piloting testing was conducted to measure the suitability and user-friendliness of the developed scale. Lastly, a sample of 211 juvenile delinquents with the age range of 10-17 (M = 9.86, SD=11.92) was administered the Juvenile Vindication Scale and Measure of Criminal Social Identity Scale (Boduszek et al., 2012). The results of exploratory factor analysis extracted a four-factor solution, namely Exoneration, Refutation, Extenuation, and Incrimination. The results indicated that JVS was found to have satisfactory internal consistency, reliability (ranged from .62 to .82), and concurrent validity (r = .45, p < .01). The outcomes of the current study systematically provide substantial information and make provision for the application of the Vindication of Juvenile Delinquents of Pakistan and are discussed in terms of cultural inferences.

KEYWORDS: Juveniles, Delinquents, Vindication, Social identity, Pakistan.