Tools for social policy management

The SiSo Scale for measuring situations of social difficulty

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2116290
AutoresEsther Raya-Diez (0000-0002-8688-5676, Universidad de La Rioja), Aurelio Lascorz Fumanal (0000-0002-1882-234X, University of Castilla-La Mancha)
Año2023
Volumen52
Número2
Páginas376-395
Fecha de publicación2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279421000684
OpenAlexW4200193418
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

The design and evaluation of social policies requires information systems that enable social intervention with the people targeted by the programmes and services and that also offer indicators for the follow-up and monitoring of the policies adopted. The article presents the process of validation of a tool for diagnosing situations of social difficulty arising from social exclusion. The scale has been implemented in one of Spain's seventeen Autonomous Communities and has been selected on the basis of Good Practice under the European Social Fund. Expert judges were consulted for content validity; the metric properties of the scores obtained by the scale were examined and an exploratory factorial analysis (EFA) was performed to study the internal structure. The results show that the scale has adequate levels of content validity, construct validity and internal consistency. The SiSo Scale supplies a synthetic index of Social Position, providing professionals with the technical tools needed to carry out social diagnoses and simultaneously giving valid and reliable information on the social condition of people in a situation of social exclusion, which can guide social policy decision-making

Construct (python library) · Economic growth · Economics · Process (computing) · Scale (ratio) · Social exclusion · Social position · Social relation · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Sciences and Policies