The comparability of the visual and verbal versions of the Inclusion of Community in Self scale

• Published in: Journal of community psychology Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1449 - 1461
• Main Authors: Folk, Johanna B., Enriquez, Kaitlinn, Cebas, Luis, Stuewig, Jeffrey, Tangney, June P., Mashek, Debra
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2019
• Subjects: calibration; community connectedness; Imprisonment; jail inmates; Jails; Prisoners; psychometric equivalence; Quantitative psychology; single‐item measure; social identity; visual assessment; single-item measure; community connectedness; jail inmates; psychometric equivalence; social identity; visual assessment; calibration

Aims Many factors affect the utility and practicality of measures in longitudinal studies characterized by transient participants such as those caught in the cycle of incarceration. The current study evaluated the psychometric equivalency of a visual and a verbal version of a single‐item connectedne...