Urbanization expedites numerous new citizens and a set of effective assessment tools are needed to evaluate their adaptation to urban society. This study attempts to develop a scale in Chinese context. The theoretical framework of scale is constructed through open questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews, and the items of scale is developed on the basis of theoretical structure. By the exploratory factor analysis of pretesting data, the results show the scale is made up of 43 items, and including five dimensions: work adaptation, environmental adaptation, interpersonal adaptation, values for adaptation and psychological adaptation. Then the five factors mode are verified by confirmatory factor analysis of 580 data testing formally. The results indicate that the scale has a good construct validity and reliability. It can serve as the tool to evaluate new citizens' adaptation to urban society.
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