Validation of the Personal Relative Deprivation Scale in Chinese college students

We assessed the reliability and validity of the Personal Relative Deprivation Scale (PRDS) when translated and tested with a sample of Chinese college students. The discriminability of all items in the PRDS–Chinese was high. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported the one-dimensional structure of the scale. The internal consistency coefficient, test–retest reliability, and split-half reliability results demonstrated excellent reliability for the PRDS–Chinese. Furthermore, weexaminedthe correlationsbetweenPRDS scores and general relative deprivation, economic relative deprivation, anxiety, pressure, depression, and aggressiveness. The findings revealed moderate-to-high correlations, suggesting good construct validity. On the basis of these findings, the PRDS–Chinese can be used as an effective assessment tool for measuring relative deprivation among the Chinese population.