Psychometric analysis Inventory Prefrontal Symptoms addicted and non-addicted subjetcs

Abstract:

The objective of this research was studying the psychometric properties in terms of reliability and validity of the Prefrontal Symptoms Inventory (PSI) in a sample of addicted and non-addicted Venezuelan patients. For this, the PSI and the frontal systems behavior scale (FrSBe-Sp) were applied to a sample of 689 people, 338 of which were addicted and 351 non-addicted, with ages between 17 and 70 years old. A linguistic adaptation was realized to the items that form the test that resulted adequate. As for the reliability using the Cronbach Alpha factor, it was obtained an alpha = 0.93 for the total of the test and for each of its dimensions. Regarding the construct validity, by a confirmatory factorial analysis it was obtained one three-factor structure that explains 33.5% of the total variance. Referring to the group differentiation, it was found a significant difference between the addicted group and the non-addicted group for …

Año de publicación:

2016

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