title: A Portuguese version of the student-teacher relationship scale - short form.
abstract: Research consistently demonstrates that positive student-teacher relationships are fundamental to the healthy development of all students. However, we lack a Portuguese-validated measure of student-teacher relationships. In this article we present the adaptation procedures and the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale - Short Form (Pianta, 1992). Five hundred and thirty five teachers from 127 schools completed the STRS-SF. The results demonstrate that this adapted version of the STRS-SF has good psychometric properties, namely high reliability (α = .84 to .87) and expected construct validity, which were tested through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (χ2/df = 1.65, CFI = .96, GFI = .93, RMSEA = 0.05). This study also showed that the correlations of student-teacher relationship with students' demographic variables are consistent with the evidence in the literature about this construct. Finally, the study indicated that female teachers reported more closeness, t(530) = 4.06, p < .001 and better overall student-teacher relationships, t(530) = 4.90, p < .001. In the discussion, we analyze the implications of these results.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (Portugal).
authors.forename: Joana Nunes
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Patrício
authors.affiliation: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (Portugal).
authors.forename: M Clara
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Barata
authors.affiliation: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (Portugal).
authors.forename: M Manuela
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Calheiros
authors.affiliation: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (Portugal).
authors.forename: João
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Graça
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011174:Portugal; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: demographic variables; psychometrics; scale analysis; student-teacher relationship; validation