Adaptação transcultural da versão portuguesa do social support appraisals para o Brasil

Abstract

ResumoObjetivo: apresentar o processo de adaptação transcultural da versão portuguesa do Social Support Appraisals e obter uma versão brasileira. Método: foram realizadas as avaliações de equivalência conceitual, itens, semântica, operacional, mensuração e funcional. Participaram 218 alunos da 4ª à 8ª série do ensino fundamental. Resultados: Na equivalência de mensuração a análise fatorial revelou quatro dimensões, o valor do coefi ciente alfa para a escala total igual a 0,79 e a validade de construto demonstrou que quanto maior a idade e série escolar dos participantes maior a percepção do apoio dos amigos e menor a percepção do apoio dos professores. Conclusão: estudos futuros devem ser realizados com populações de diferentes regiões do país, a fi m de observar a adequabilidade da versão brasileira. Palavras-chave: Adaptação transcultural, apoio social, criança, adolescente. AbstractObjective: To present the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the Portuguese version of Social Support Appraisals. Method: The process of cross-cultural adaptation involved the evaluation of conceptual, items, semantics, operational, measurement and functional equivalence. Two hundred eighteen students from 4 th to 8 th grades participated in the study. Results: In measurement equivalence, factor analysis revealed four dimensions with values of alpha coeffi cient for the total scale of .79. The construct validity demonstrated that the greater the age and education level of the participants, the greater was the support perceived from friends and the lower the perception of teacher's support. Conclusion: further studies should be conducted with people from different regions of the country in order to observe the suitability of the Brazilian version.

Young Offenders in Brazil: Mental Health and Factors of Risk and Protection

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“…To evaluate the social support for adolescents, we used the Brazilian version of the Social Support Appraisals for Children and Adolescents, transculturally adapted for Brazil 17 The questionnaire was originally developed by Vaux in 1986. The instrument has 30 questions, and the total score reflects the perceived social support.…”

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“…The levels of social support arising from the application of the SSA can be interpreted using its rating: low, normal and high. Originally the scale does not show the ranges of scores that generate each of these results; however, the guidelines for its use indicate the minimum and maximum scores for each subscale and point to the establishment of low ratings, normal and high for each population group studied 17 .…”

Social Skills Program for Adolescents in Vulnerable Social Contexts

“…The scale consists of 30 items arranged in a Likert scale of 1 (completely disagree) to 6 (strongly agree) that includes four factors: (1) Perception of social support from the family; (2) Perception of social support from friends; (3) Perception of social support from teachers; (4) social support perception from others in general. Squassoni and Matsukura (2014) adapted the Portuguese version of the scale (Antunes & Fontaine, 1995) to a Brazilian sample consisted of 218 students from 4th to 8th grade. The authors found good and adequate internal consistency indices of the factors (family α = .57; Friends α = .72; Teachers α = .79; others α = .61) and for the total scale (α = .74).…”