Construction and Validation of Social Disconnection Scale

Abstract

Adolescent is a period where a child develops new habits, interests and attaining new way of understanding and dealing situations. They will be more into situations that they feel as reinforcing. Usually, children will have a tendency to stay away from social gathering especially with the rise of online games and activities. They barely go outside and meet new people.  The scale was developed to measure social disconnection of children who are within the adolescent age group. The scale consisted of 33 items and 5 alternatives for each item namely strongly disagree-1, disagree-2, undecided-3, agree-4, strongly agree-5. The scale has three subscales which measures the disconnection with family and relatives, disconnection with friends, disconnection with the society/area of living. The scoring method was summing of all the scores. Higher the score, higher the level of disconnection of an individual with their family, friends and society. The questionnaire has a reliability of .951 and has achieved Face validity. This scale will be helpful for practitioners and researchers in finding out the intensity of social disconnection within the adolescent community.