Adaptação e evidências de validade da Bateria de Personalidade Prosocial no Brasil

Abstract

ResumoO interesse da psicologia social e da personalidade pela disposição duradoura a agir prosocialmente resultou no desenvolvimento de instrumentos capazes de medir tal "bondade." O objetivo do presente estudo foi traduzir para o português, adaptar e avaliar as propriedades psicométricas da Bateria de Personalidade Prosocial (Prosocial Personality Battery), um instrumento desenvolvido para medir diferenças individuais na disposição de agir prosocialmente. Dois estudos foram conduzidos para testar a estrutura teórica do instrumento e produzir evidências de validade. No Estudo 1, o instrumento original foi traduzido usando o método tradução-retradução. A estrutura original foi replicada e os indicadores psicométricos observados foram próximos dos relatados originalmente. No Estudo 2, a estrutura foi novamente replicada e a análise fatorial confirmatória demonstrou que, embora ainda possam haver aprimoramentos futuros, ele replica a estrutura original e pode ser usado no Brasil para estudar o comportamento prosocial. Palavras-chave: Psicologia Social; Comportamento prosocial; Personalidade; Diferenças individuais. Adaptation and evidence of validity of the Prosocial Personality Battery in Brazil AbstractThe interest of personality and social psychology for the enduring disposition to act prosocially resulted in the development of instruments capable of measuring such "goodness". The aim of the present study was to translate into Portuguese, adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Prosocial Personality Battery, an instrument developed to measure individual differences in the disposition to act prosocially. Two studies were conducted to test the theoretical structure of the instrument and produce evidence of validity. In Study 1, the original instrument was translated using the back-translation method. The original structure was replicated and the psychometric properties observed were similar to the originally obtained. In Study 2, the structure was replicated again and the confirmatory factor analysis showed that, even though future improvements can be made, it replicates the original structure an can be used in Brazil to study prosocial behavior. Keywords: Social psychology; Prosocial behavior; Personality; Individual differences. Adaptación y evidencia de validez de la Batería de Personalidad Prosocial en BrasilResumen El interés de la psicología social y de la personalidad en la tendencia a actuar prosocialmente resultó en el desarrollo de instrumentos que permitan medir esa "bondad". El objetivo de este estudio fue traducir al portugués, adaptar y conocer las propiedades psicométricas de la Batería de Personalidad Prosocial (Prosocial Personality Battery), un instrumento desarrollado para medir las diferencias individuales en la voluntad para actuar prosocialmente. Se realizaron dos estudios para probar la estructura teórica del instrumento y producir pruebas de validez. En el Estudio 1, el instrumento original fue traducido por el método de traducción-retraducción. La estructura original fue rep...

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