The Scale Development of New Citizens’ Adaptation to Urban Society in the Process of China’s Urbanization

Kai Du; Xiaofu Pan

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The Scale Development of New Citizens’ Adaptation to Urban Society in the Process of China’s Urbanization

Kai Du, Xiaofu Pan

Published in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 3)

Received: 19 May 2014 Accepted: 3 June 2014 Published: 10 June 2014

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Abstract

Urbanization expedites numerous new citizens and a set of effective assessment tools are needed to evaluate their adaptation to urban society. This study attempts to develop a scale in Chinese context. The theoretical framework of scale is constructed through open questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews, and the items of scale is developed on the basis of theoretical structure. By the exploratory factor analysis of pretesting data, the results show the scale is made up of 43 items, and including five dimensions: work adaptation, environmental adaptation, interpersonal adaptation, values for adaptation and psychological adaptation. Then the five factors mode are verified by confirmatory factor analysis of 580 data testing formally. The results indicate that the scale has a good construct validity and reliability. It can serve as the tool to evaluate new citizens’ adaptation to urban society.

Published in	Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.pbs.20140303.12
Page(s)	93-99
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Urbanization, New Citizens, Adaptation to Urban Society, Scale Development

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Kai Du

School of Culture & Social Development Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Xiaofu Pan

School of Culture & Social Development Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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Kai Du, Xiaofu Pan. The Scale Development of New Citizens’ Adaptation to Urban Society in the Process of China’s Urbanization. Psychol Behav Sci. 2014;3(3):93-99. doi: 10.11648/j.pbs.20140303.12

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