Validation Study of School Inadaptability Questionnaire

Purpose of study is to validate the School Inadaptability Questionnaire (SIQ, Clinciu, 2003) against an acknowledged psychometric instrument, namely NEO PI-R of Costa and McCrae. Secondly I want to point out more specifically the structure of the two factors measured through SIQ and to conceive two predictive hierarchic models which should cover the criterion variance as much as possible. Study’ conclusion is that high school adjustment is well described at the crossroads of two factors. One implies unloading negative school emotions towards the inner side (School Neuroticism) while the other one implies unloading them towards the outer side (Rebelliousness).