Addi van Bergen

Social Exclusion Index-f or Health Surveys (SEI-HS) 83 4 scales Social Participation and Material Deprivation were sufficient ( α ≥ 0.70). The Social Rights and Normative Integration scales, however, had insufficient Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of respectively 0.34 and 0.30. The internal consistencies of the SEI- HS scale were all higher than those of the SCP dimension scales. 3. Internal structure Table 4 presents the intercorrelations between the dimension scales and general index. As expected, the SEI-HS showed strong positive correlations between the scales and the general index (r > = 0.60) and weak positive correlations between the dimension scales interact (0.20 < = r < 0.40), which are comparable to those of the SCP Index. The results showed an acceptable model fit with all factor loadings significant at the 0.001 level 1 ; RMSEA =0.057 (HI90=0.057); TLI=0.827; CFI=0.872 and Hoelter’s .05 Index=407. Table 4. Pearson correlations between the subscales (dimensions a ) and the general index, SEI- HS (development sample) and SCP index. Correlation between: SEI-HS SCP index b General index x SP 0.73* 0.76 General index x MD 0.69* 0.70 General index x SR 0.72* 0.77 General index x NI 0.64* 0.68 SP x MD 0.34* 0.35 SP x SR 0.37* 0.43 SP x NI 0.31* 0.41 MD x SR 0.34* 0.44 MD x NI 0.26* 0.28 SR x NI 0.28* 0.34 * p<0.001 a SP=Social Participation; MD=Material Deprivation; SR=Social Rights; NI=Normative Integration b Vrooman and Hoff [34]. 4. Construct validity As shown in Table 5, all construct validity hypotheses were confirmed at the .001 level of confidence. Poor labour market position and poor health (poor perceived health and high risk for anxiety and depression disorder) had the strongest relationships with the SEI-HS. Also the factors non-Western ethnic background, low income, living alone, low education, living in a deprived neighbourhood and single parenthood, were all associated with a higher level of SE. The associations were generally stronger with the SEI-HS than with the SCP index (Table 5). An exception was the factor ‘single parenthood’. 1 The factor loadings in the dimensions Social Participation ranged from 0.26 to 0.77; Material Deprivation from 0.52 to 0.59; Social Rights from 0.23 to 0.44; and Normative Integration from 0.30 to 0.41.