Table 3.
Quality assessment of theory studies
| Paper | Clarity of constructs | Clarity of relationship between constructs | Testability | Parsimony | Generalisability | Total score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CB/JT | KH | CB/JT | KH | CB/JT | KH | CB/JT | KH | CB/JT | KH | CB/JT | KH | |
| Benson et al. [19] | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Benson [18] | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0.5 |
| Benson et al. [20] | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3.5 | 1 |
| Benson et al. [21] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3.5 |
| Berg et al. [22] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Busseri et al. [23] | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 5 |
| Catalano et al. [24] | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Ginwright and Cammarota [25] | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Kia-Keating et al. [26] | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Kim et al. [27] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Lee [28] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Lerner and Lerner [29] | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Lerner et al. [30] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1.5 |
| Perkins et al. [31] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Roth and Brooks-Gunn [12] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Schwartz et al. [32] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| These scores were agreed between KH and JT | ||||||||||||
| Ginwright and Cammarota [25] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Perkins et al. [31] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Roth and Brooks-Gunn [12] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
Key: 1 = Yes, 0.5 = Partial, 0 = No