Abstract

PIMENTEL, Carlos Eduardo; GOUVEIA, Valdiney V.  and  PESSOA, Viviany Silva. Music Preference Scale: development and psychometric parameters. PsicoUSF [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.2, pp. 145-155. ISSN 1413-8271.

This study aimed at elaborating and knowing the psychometric parameters of a measure of musical preference among adolescents. Participated in the study 480 high school students, most of them female (55.1%) and single (95.9%), with age ranging from 13 to 28 years (M=16.2; SD=1.60). They answered the Musical Preference Scale and demographic questions. The sample was randomically divided into two of equal sizes, searching to know the factor structure of the scale (n1) and than test it (n2). Results of the Principal Components analysis with the first sample indicated a multifactor structure, composed of four components of music styles: mass music, alternative music, refined music, and conventional music, which satisfactory reliabilities indices and accounting more than half of the total variance. A confirmatory factor analysis (ML) was performed with the second sample, testing the previously observed structure. Results reazonable support such structure. It was concluded that this is an adequate measure for research purposes, and it is useful when the goal is to know the adolescents musical preference. On the other hand, they were pointed out the limitations of the current study, and presented suggestions to improve the parameters of this measure.

Keywords : Music; Preference; Adolescent; Scale.

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