Scoring for the College Hemingway: Measure of Late Adolescent Connectedness (Version 4)

Scoring for the College Hemingway: Measure of Late Adolescent Connectedness (version 4)

Below are the items which go with each scale. Those bolded must be reverse scored before creating mean scores for the separate subscales. Reverse scoring means changing 1 to 5, 2 to 4, 4 to 2, and 5 to 1. Then, taking the mean of the items in the scale creates the scale score.

Three sets of reliability estimates are reported below from earlier studies using the scale with college students in a traditionally Black college (BC), in a small liberal arts college (mostly Caucasian students)(LA), and in a large research university (mostly Caucasian students)(RU). These were based on small samples (75 to 100 youth in each study) but provide estimates of which scales to be most reliable. Some of the BC reliabilities were based on only a subset of items, and so may be artificially low or not available (n/a) for this group. Two-week test-retest (TR) reliability and unbiased test-retest reliability (UA) (Cronbach’s Alpha) estimates also are presented. Notice, that because the number of reverse-scored items vary among the subscales, it is not appropriate to make between subscale comparisons based on mean differences. Those with more reverse-scored items will have lower mean scores.

Reverse items: 7, 11, 21, 26, 30, 34, 51, 59, 64, 69, 70, 72.

Findings reported in Karcher, M. J. & Wallace, T. (2003). The ecology of connectedness in college and its relationship to substance use and psychopathology: A cross-cultural and multi-site exploration. Unpublished manuscript, University of Texas at San Antonio.

Connectedness to the college community RELIABILITY BC = n/a; LA = .72; RU = .81. (UA = .91; TR = .83) /VARIABLES=q1hem q11hem q21hem q31hem q41hem q51hem

Connectedness to friends RELIABILITY BC = .72; LA = .86; RU = .83. (UA = .94; TR = .88) /VARIABLES=q2hem q12hem q22hem q32hem q42hem q52hem

Connectedness to a self-in-the-present RELIABILITY BC = .75; LA = .86 ; RU = .84. (UA = .93; TR = .87) /VARIABLES=q3hem3 q13hem q23hem q33hem q43hem q47hem q54hem

Connectedness to parents RELIABILITY BC = .63; LA = .83 ; RU = .74. (UA = .65; TR = .47) /VARIABLES= q4hem q14hem q24hem q34hem q36hem q44hem

Connectedness to siblings RELIABILITY BC = .85; LA = .88; RU = .86. (UA = .84; TR = .71) /VARIABLES=q5hem q15hem q25hem q35hem q45hem

Connectedness to school/peers RELIABILITY BC = n/a; LA = .72; RU = .72. (UA = ; TR = ) /VARIABLES=q6hem q16hem q26hem q46hem q53hem (School) and /VARIABLES=q7hem q17hem q27hem q37hem q55hem (Peers)

Connectedness to professors RELIABILITY BC = .64; LA = .80; RU = .82. (UA = .78; TR = .63) /VARIABLES=q8hem q18hem q28hem q38hem q48hem

Connectedness to self-in-the-future RELIABILITY BC = n/a; LA = .75; RU = .56. (UA = n/a; TR = n/a) /VARIABLES=q9hem q19hem q29hem q39hem q49hem

Connectedness to reading RELIABILITY BC = .85; LA = .94; RU = .94. (UA = .96; TR = .91) /VARIABLES=q10hem q20hem q30hem q40hem q50hem

Connectedness to peers from other cultures RELIABILITY BC = .86; LA = .86; RU = .86. (UA = .89; TR = .79) /VARIABLES= q58hem q65hem q71hem (note: do not include q60hem)

Connectedness to father RELIABILITY BC = n/a; LA = .86; RU = .84. (UA = .93; TR = .85) /VARIABLES=q56hem q62hem q67hem q69hem q74hem

Connectedness to mother RELIABILITY BC = n/a; LA = .76; RU = .80. (UA = .81; TR = .67) /VARIABLES=q57hem q63hem q68hem q70hem q75hem

Connectedness to self-cohesion (reaction to rejection and disconnection) RELIABILITY BC = .82; LA = .87; RU = .85. (UA = .91; TR = .83) /VARIABLES=q59hem q64hem q72hem

Connectedness to religion RELIABILITY BC = .83; LA = .86; RU = .91. (UA = .92; TR = .84) /VARIABLES=q61hem q66hem q73hem