In the present article, we aimed at construing a new quantitative measure of children’s agency in Palestine. Within a socio-ecological and culturally and contextually informed perspective, the study introduces the development of a new instrument to investigate and evaluate children’s agentic practices within their living contexts and their daily lives. First, we evaluated the model of measurement of WCAAS-Pal using a sequential exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Following the principles of testing a quantitative measure in the context of the dual-frame sampling method, the process of validating the quantitative measure was conducted on a group of 1166 Palestinian children aged 9 to 14 years (m = 11.58, sd = 1.54). Second, a sample of 251 Palestinian children aged between 9 and 14 years (m = 11.82, sd = 1.53) was used to compute the reliability of the instrument along with both convergent and divergent validity using the Children Hope Scale and the Children Revised Impact of Event Scale-Arabic Version measures, respectively. The results of the EFA suggested a baseline seven-factor structure to be further assessed via CFA. a complex web of agency domains that might contribute to the child psychological functioning when forced to leave in conditions of ongoing threat and military violence emerged from the analysis.

在本文中，我们旨在构建巴勒斯坦儿童能动性的新定量衡量标准。从社会生态、文化和背景的角度来看，该研究介绍了一种新工具的开发，用于调查和评估儿童在其生活环境和日常生活中的代理行为。首先，我们使用序贯探索性因素分析 (EFA) 和验证性因素分析 (CFA) 评估了 WCAAS-Pal 的测量模型。按照双框架抽样方法测试定量测量的原则，对 1166 名 9 至 14 岁巴勒斯坦儿童（m = 11.58，sd = 1.54）进行了验证定量测量的过程。其次，使用 251 名 9 至 14 岁巴勒斯坦儿童样本（m = 11.82，sd = 1.53）来计算该工具的可靠性以及使用儿童希望量表和儿童修订影响事件规模-阿拉伯语版本分别测量。 EFA 的结果建议通过 CFA 进一步评估基线七因素结构。分析得出了一个复杂的机构领域网络，当儿童在持续受到威胁和军事暴力的情况下被迫离开时，可能有助于儿童的心理功能。