The aim of the paper was the validation of a psychosocial assessment tool for determining willingness to participate in child-centered safety promotion interventions, specifically in a low-income community in South Africa. A study was conducted as part of the initial validation to test the items and format the questionnaire. The instrument was then administered to Afrikaans speaking individuals in a community in the Western Cape. Iterative exploratory factor analysis was conducted at both the item and scale levels to select and reassign items and scales to determine the final composition of the questionnaire. The findings indicate that the instrument measures seven factors, namely incentives; priorities and community needs; perceived benefits; social approval; accessibility and values; altruistic capital; and community cohesion, which represents salient dimensions of the construct willingness to participate in interventions. The questionnaire and its subscales displayed acceptable to good reliability, with Cronbach’s α ranging from .55 to .80. Since willingness precedes actual participation, it is argued that insight into the factors that relate to willingness to participate provides an avenue for motivating actual participation.

该论文的目的是验证一种社会心理评估工具，用于确定参与以儿童为中心的安全促进干预措施的意愿，特别是在南非的低收入社区。作为初步验证的一部分进行了一项研究，以测试项目和格式化问卷。然后将该乐器用于西开普省一个社区中讲南非荷兰语的个人。在项目和量表水平上进行迭代探索性因素分析，以选择和重新分配项目和量表，以确定问卷的最终组成。调查结果表明，该工具衡量七个因素，即激励；优先事项和社区需求；感知到的好处；社会认可；可访问性和价值；利他资本；和社区凝聚力，它代表了参与干预的建构意愿的显着维度。问卷及其分量表显示出可接受的良好信度，Cronbach α 的范围从 0.55 到 0.80。由于意愿先于实际参与，因此有人认为，深入了解与参与意愿相关的因素为激励实际参与提供了途径。