VICTIM-BLAMING AND SOCIETY-BLAMING SCALES FOR SOCIAL-PROBLEMS

Until now, no general scales have been available for measuring victim or society blaming. This constraint has been an impediment to policyma king with regard to those who are affected by social problems. Four sc ales were constructed: stable victim-blaming scale, unstable victim-bl aming scale, stable society-blaming scale, and unstable society-blamin g scale. Based on the results of the preliminary exploratory factor an alysis and the reliability coefficients, the unstable society-blaming scale was deleted from further analysis. Then, a confirmatory factor a nalysis using the LISREL 7 program was conducted to evaluate the param eter estimates of the scale items and examine the construct validity o f the 3 scales. The scales were judged to have construct validity with satisfactory reliability.