Translation, cultural adaptation, and content validity index of the Juvenile Love Scale to the Brazilian context

Abstract

Background: Passionate love involves physiological, emotional, and cognitive features that greatly changes behavior. This phenomenon seems universal or near universal. Even other animal species choose partners. An intense state of passionate love is associated with activity in dopamine pathways of the brain 'reward system' , and recently has been regarded as a 'natural addiction' . Instruments or tools to evaluate romantic love during childhood is still scarce. Objective: To perform the translation and cultural adaptation of the Juvenile Love Scale (JLS) for use in the Brazilian context targeted for adolescents between 14 and 18 years old. Methods: The translation and cultural adaptation of JLS followed international recommendations, and its content validity was analyzed by a panel of experts in different areas of knowledge. Results: The final version of the JLS for use in the Brazilian context showed high content validity (> 90%). Discussion: To our knowledge, this is the first scale for measuring romantic or passionate love in adolescents adapted to the Brazilian context. This instrument is a significant contribution to the study of the dimensions of love, as well as to understand the impact of love on the psychiatric phenomena that pervade life in this stage of development.

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“…The JLS access cognitive, emotional, and behavioral features of passionate love such as intrusive thinking and idealization of the other, attraction toward the partner (especially sexual), positive and negative feelings, physiological arousal, physical proximity, and be available to the other (Hatfield and Sprecher, 1986; Cacioppo et al, 2012). We used the Brazilian version short version of JLS, containing 15 items, which was previously validated to our culture (Soares et al, 2017). In this sample, JLS internal consistency was higher than 0.90 suggesting good reliability.…”

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“…Banyak penelitian menggunakan instrumen sebagai alat pengambilan data. Seringkali, penelitian juga diawali dengan penerjemahan kuesioner sebelum digunakan pada populasi yang sebenarnya (Anggreani et al, 2019;Delphi & Rating, 2014;Muhammad, Shatri, Djoerban, & Abdullah, 2017;Pulignano et al, 2010;Soares et al, 2017;Sousa & Rojjanasrirat, 2011). Hal ini penting untuk dilakukan jika bahasa kuesioner yang akan dipakai berbeda dengan populasi yang akan dilibatkan.…”

“…Pernyataan tersebut didukung oleh penelitian lainnya (Anggreani et al, 2019;Soares et al, 2017 (Polit & Beck, 2006). Waltz, C.F., Strickland, O.L., & Lenz (2005) dan Lynn (1986) menambahkan bahwa untuk melakukan validasi konten minimal melibatkan 3 orang ahli (experts).…”