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Caycho Rodríguez, T. (2013). Psychometric analysis preliminary of the revised shyness scale of Check and Buss in teen and young peruvians. Psychologia, 7(2), 13–24. https://doi.org/10.21500/19002386.1201
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Abstract

The article describes the psychometric analysis of the Revised Shyness Scale of Check and Buss, composed of 11 Likert items with five alternatives.

The scale was administered to 385 students, men and women, 16-25 years of age and national private universities in Lima. Correlation

analysis-test item associations found highly significant (p<0.001) for each of the reagents, the reagents evaluated indicating that a single

construct indicators. Shyness Scale has high internal consistency (Cronbach’s a = .842). The validity of construct was established by means

of Analysis Factorial, where the analysis of principal components and the orthogonal rotation (Varimax) they extracted two factors identified

like: Inadequacy of interpersonal relations and Avoidance of social contact.

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