About the Measure
Domains | Mental health and wellbeing, Social and Emotional Competence |
Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
Subscales | Health risk; Prosocial risk |
Description | The Prosocial and Health Adolescent Risk Behavior Scale (PHARBS) was developed beginning with a review of the present evidence in support of potential predictors and descriptors of various risk behaviours. |
Example | I cheat on my school work/tests |
Link | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12310-014-9123-y |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 20 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 20 |
Age | 10-14 |
Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .70-.86 |
Test retest | Not reported |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | KMO=0.8 2 f |
CFA | Chi-square (119) = 214.24 p<.001 CFI=0.99 RMSEA=.05 |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | Not reported |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Skaar, N. R., Christ, T. J., & Jacobucci, R. (2014). Measuring adolescent prosocial and health risk behavior in schools: Initial development of a screening measure. School Mental Health, 6(2), 137–149. doi:10.1007/s12310-014-9123-y |