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 |