Social-ecological assessment of environments: Toward a two-factor model |
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Authors: | Martin Kohn Abraham M Jeger Martin B Koretzky |
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Institution: | (1) William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology, 20 West 74 Street, 10023 New York, New York;(2) New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York;(3) Veterans Administration Hospital, Northport, New York |
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Abstract: | A study was conducted to test the usefulness of the two-factor model in assessing social environments. Subjects were residents and staff at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed and/or delinquent boys and girls. Rating instruments consisted of (a) two parallel versions of Moos' Community-Oriented Programs Enivronment Scale (COPES), each worded so as to be appropriate to the setting being measured, and (b) global ratings of satisfaction with the environment. Principal component factor analyses, carried out separately on the youths' COPES-School and the youths' COPES-Cottage, yielded two orthogonal but similar factors in each environment. In a comparison with Moos' three-dimensional formulation of the social milieu, the two factors strongly resembled two of Moos' dimensions but were more independent, had greater validity, and discriminated between the two environments at a higher level of significance. The instruments derived from the factor analyses provide a simple procedure for assessing a variety of treatment programs and populations. |
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