Abstract: This paper first defined the construct of alienation, based upon previous literature and experimental research work and compiled a preliminary questionnaire to measure adolescent students sense of alienation. After pilot testing and a series of revisions, a 46 item scale, named the Adolescent Students Alienation Scale, was constructed. The researchers administered this Scale to 1500 college students and middle school students from Chongqing and Lanzhou. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis found that that alienation was a multi hierarchical and multi dimensional construct which had two hierarchies and nine dimensions. The first hierarchy included three dimensions: social alienation, interpersonal alienation, environmental alienation; the second hierarchy include d nine dimensions: sense of non meaning, sense of self alienation, sense of loneliness, natural alienation, alienation between family members, alienation to living situation, sense of oppression and restriction, sense of uncontrollability and sense of social isolation. These empirical dimensions were theoretical interpretable, and the new Scale was tested to be reliable and valid enough to be applicable to measure adolescent students sense of alienation.

Key words: alienation, adolescent students, social alienation, interpersonal alienation, environmental alienation