A comparison of Italian, Japanese and American students' responses to the Adolescent Reinforcement Survey Schedule

✍ Scribed by Aldo Galeazzi; Emilio Franceschina; Joseph Cautela; George R. Holmes; Yuji Sakano

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 88 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199802)54:2<267::aid-jclp16>3.0.co;2-h

✦ Synopsis

The Italian form of the Adolescent Reinforcement Survey Schedule (ARSS-I) was administered to (N ϭ 648) high school boys and girls from northern and central Italy. Their responses were factor analyzed using a principal component, VARIMAX rotation procedure (SAS Institute, Inc., 1990). The 10 interpretable factors from the Italian data were compared and contrasted to factor analytic results from Holmes (1991Holmes ( , 1994) ) studies using American and Japanese students. Additionally, the Italian data analyses includes an examination by gender using t tests for each of the ARSS-I items and an ANOVA for age and age-gender effects on responses to the ARSS-I.