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Response class: a Guttman scale analysis

A Harris

    Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
    |June 1, 1980
    PubMed
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    This study found that children's coercive behaviors form a predictable hierarchy, suggesting a consistent response class. This pattern of coercive child behavior remained stable across different school settings.

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    Area of Science:

    • Child Psychology
    • Behavioral Science

    Background:

    • Coercive child behavior is a significant concern in developmental psychology.
    • Understanding the structure and consistency of coercive behaviors is crucial for effective interventions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate if eight specific coercive child behaviors form a unidimensional response class.
    • To determine the stability of this coercive response class across different settings.

    Main Methods:

    • Guttman scale analyses were employed to assess unidimensional progressions in coercive behaviors.
    • Rank-order correlations were used to examine response consistency across classroom and playground settings.
    • Two independent samples of boys (derivation and cross-validation) were observed.

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    Main Results:

    • High reproducibility coefficients (.92–.94) indicated a consistent Guttman scale structure for coercive behaviors in both settings.
    • Strong rank-order correlations (.971–.996) demonstrated transitivity and stability of the response class across settings.
    • The findings suggest a stable hierarchy of coercive responses in children.

    Conclusions:

    • The eight observed coercive responses constitute a response class with a transitive hierarchy.
    • This coercive response hierarchy is stable across different school environments for groups of children.