evereux幼儿评估量表第二版的中文修订

Objective: The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers Second Edition (DECA-P2) was developed in 1996 and revised in 2012 by Paul A. LeBuffe and Jack A. Naglieri. DECA-P2 is mainly used to measure the resilience for children aged from 3 to 5. The purpose of this study is to investigate the applicability of DECA-P2 in China. Method: 608 preschoolers were rated by their teachers with the Chinese version of DECA-P2, Preschool Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale (PreBERS) and Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale-30 (SCBE-30). Data for 570 of 608 were valid. Result: For the subscale of Total Protective Factors, 2 of 27 items were excluded due to the low internal consistency. Exploratory factor analysis was performed on other 25 items with 50% of the valid data, which is selected randomly by the balance of age, gender and region. Using principal components analysis with varimax rotation, 21 items were kept for the factor loading of each item greater than 0.50 only on one factor, resulting in a three-factor solution (Initiative, Self-Regulation and Attachment/Relationships) which accounted for 59.82% of the variance. Another 50% of the valid data were analysed by the confirmatory factor analysis and results showed Х2/df=2.50, RMESA=0.07, CFI=0.91, IFI=0.91. The obtained configuration was the same as the original scale, and the sum of items in each factor could also form a corresponding subscale. Besides, the subscale of Behavior Concern consisted of 9 items because 2 of 11 items were excluded due to the low internal consistency. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients of all subscales were between 0.80 and 0.93, and the split-half reliabilities of them were between 0.80 and 0.89. Each subscale had significant correlation with the two criterion scales. In addition, there were significant differences in age and gender for the two subscales of Total Protective Factors and Behavior Concern for Chinese preschoolers. The level of resilience of girls was higher than that of boys, and gils had less problem behaviors; the level of resilience of 5-aged preschoolers were higher than that of children aged 3 to 4, and 5-aged preschoolers had less problem behaviors as well. Conclusion: The Chinese version of DECA-P2 has acceptable psychometric quality and can be applied to evaluate resilience for children aged from 3 to 5 in China.