Abstract

GOBBOI, Jessica Particelli; NAKANOI, Tatiana de Cássia  and  DELLAZZANA-ZANONI, Letícia Lovato. Life's projects scale for adolescents: evidence of content validity. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.1, pp. 20-40. ISSN 2236-6407.

Abstract The thematic of the life projects of adolescents has been shown relevant in Psychology, specifically in Developmental Psychology. Faced with the lack of instruments that have this objective, the present study consisted in the investigation of the evidence of content validity of the Scale of Life Projects for Adolescents (EPVA), in development. Five experts on the subject acted as judges, classifying the 116 items of the instrument in seven dimensions: affective relationships, study, work, positive aspirations, material goods, religion / spirituality and meaning of life. The analysis of the coefficients of agreement showed the adequacy of the items, being possible to maintain 88% of the initial scale. Analysis of Kappa coefficient showed a concordance index above 0.75 for all judges. The results pointed to the adequacy of the scale to the construct and dimensions that it intends to evaluate.

Keywords : Key words: life’s projects; content validity; psychological assessment; kappa coefficient..

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