Avaliação da percepção da aceitação da família e dos amigos: contributos para a validade da estrutura factorial da Perceived Aceptance Scale (PAS)

Abstract

The Perceived Acceptance Scale - PAS (Brock, Sarason, Sanghvi & Gurung, 1998; portuguesese version of Pinheiro & Ferreira, 2001) measure, within relationships with father, mother, friends and family, the self appraisal that others care and value us, independently of our occasional attitudes and actions. Trying to contribute to the process of transcultural validation of PAS in this study, with a college students sample, are presented and discussed the confirmatory factorial analysis results, with a appropriated estimator for dealing with ordinal data. We concluded that the proposed models reproduce adequately the structure of each subscale and the all scale. In local adjustment analysis we verify that the R2 values that each factor extracts from each item are situated between .11 and .80, requiring a carful interpretation of the semantic quality of some of them. There are suggesting changes.