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Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

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  • Dennis Sing-wing Wong

    (Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)

  • Sai-fu Fung

    (Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)

Abstract

Two studies were conducted to support the development of an eight-item Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool (CRIT) and evaluate the psychometric properties of the proposed scale on samples of secondary school and university students. The CRIT was developed and evaluated in two cross-sectional studies with 2044 respondents from Hong Kong and China. Study 1 recruited 1533 secondary school students from Hong Kong with a mean age of 14.91 (SD = 1.77) years, and Study 2 recruited 511 university students from mainland China with a mean age of 20.41 (SD = 2.49) years. A stepwise confirmatory factor analytical approach was taken with further verification by exploratory factor analysis based on different samples. Factorial validity was further verified using confirmatory factor analysis. The analyses supported an eight-item scale with a two-factor structure. The eight-item CRIT was found to possess good internal consistency and concurrent validity. The studies offer promising support for the CRIT. It has the potential to advance epistemological methods and clinical research related to cybercrime prevention.

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  • Dennis Sing-wing Wong & Sai-fu Fung, 2020. "Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(13), pages 1-13, June.
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