Initial psychometric evidence of a scale to quantify the Relative frequency with which adolescents observe events of violence

This study was carried out with the aim of building a scale to quantify the relative frequency with which adolescents observe acts of violence. 860 high school students participated, 433 men and 427 women, aged 12 to 17 years. The 15 items showed adequate homogeneity, discrimination and community in...

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Autores: Olivas Ugarte, Lincol Orlando, Escudero Nolasco, Juan Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad César Vallejo
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad César Vallejo
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.revistas.ucv.edu.pe:article/203
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.ucv.edu.pe/index.php/psiquemag/article/view/203
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Escala
Observación de violencia
Adolescentes
Validez
Confiabilidad
Scale
Observation of violence
Adolescents
Validity
Reliability
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Sumario:This study was carried out with the aim of building a scale to quantify the relative frequency with which adolescents observe acts of violence. 860 high school students participated, 433 men and 427 women, aged 12 to 17 years. The 15 items showed adequate homogeneity, discrimination and community indexes. We found evidence of validity in relation to life satisfaction and empathy. The exploratory factor analysis reported that the five factors: observation of violence on the Internet, TV, street, school and home, explain 77.6% of variance. Confirmatory factor analysis showed the model fit of five correlated factors (CFI = .969, RMSEA = .051 and SRMR = .031). Finally, the coefficients Alpha ordinal (.964) and Omega (.957) demonstrate the reliability of the EOVA scale.