Diseño y validación de una escala de actitudes hacia la paternidad para muestras colombianas

Abstract

The family is the main transmitting system of behaviors and a couple, when deciding to have a child, reflects on the ideals and expectations regarding the appropiate way of upbringing a child which in men, determines the value of the emotional load and power in the masculine gender. The present study had as main objective to design and validate a scale that measures attitudes toward parenthood which determine effective behavioral aspects for a suitable child rearing. In order to achieve this, a specification chart was designed and items were constructed and then submitted to be validated by judges. The scale was adjusted based on the judges opinions and applied to 240 Colombian men with an age range of 18-52 years old (media=24,7 years old). After conducting an exploratory factor analysis, the reactants were grouped according to what was suggested by the program and those which were not appropriate were extracted. Results were submitted to a confirmatory analysis verifying the model’s adjustment. Ratings for validity and agreement showed that the items were essential, the correlation analysis showed homogeneity between them and the test showed
high reliability. As a conclusion, it is said that the Attitudes toward parenthood scale is a valid and reliable scale to be used in Colombian population, suggesting to replicate the study in order to evaluate its generalizability and estimate the plausibility of extrapolating it to female gender.

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