Internal Structure of a Scale of Helplessness for young people in northern Mexico

 

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Autores: Gonzalez Tovar, Jose, Garza Sánchez, Rosa Isabel, Hernández Montaño, Alicia
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2019
Descripción:Objective. Analyze the internal structure of the proposal for a Youth Helplessness Scale (EIJ, by its acronym in Spanish) in a sample of the city of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. Method. A quantitative methodology of instrumental design was used. An incidental sample of 750 cases was chosen, of which 50.3% were men and 49.7% women, and whose average age was 21.85. A Scale of Hopelessness for Young people consisting of 47 reactants was used, measuring affection, motivation, cognition and behavior. The reliability was. 898, and an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was carried out. Results. Adjustment indices met the criterion of good fit. This tool provides a way to measure the predictor variables of suicidal behavior, all of which constitute a current public health problem, and which are partly predicted by indicators of helplessness.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/33428
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/actualidades/article/view/33428
Palabra clave:Hopelessness
youth
factor analysis
Indefensión
jóvenes
análisis factorial