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Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
On-line version ISSN 1852-4206
Abstract
OROZ, Laura Beatriz et al. Análisis confirmatorio y valores normativos del cuestionario infantil de emociones positivas (CIEP). Rev Arg Cs Comp. [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.1, pp.91-103. ISSN 1852-4206.
The aim of this study was to assess the validity based on internal structure of the Children's Questionnaire of Positive Emotions (CIEP), and to provide normative data for the interpretation of the scores of Argentinean children, aged from 8 to 12 years old. Participants were 1384 girls, 1376 boys and 1 child who did not identify his sex (M = 10.14; SD = 1.30). All attended to public or private primary schools, from urban and suburban areas of Argentina. Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the data fit acceptably the five-factor proposed model: joy, gratitude, sympathy, serenity and personal satisfaction. The ANOVA’s revealed differences in the positive emotional experience between girls and boys, being the first who shown greater tendency to be grateful and sympathetic. From these results, the means, standard deviations and percentile values for each sex were calculated.
Keywords : positive emotions; children; confirmatory factor analysis; normative data.