Abstract

VARGAS RUBILAR, Jael; LEMOS, Viviana Noemí  and  BALABANIAN, Cinthia. Escala de expectativas parentales acerca de la prosocialidad de los hijos: construcción y análisis psicométricos preliminares. Rev. psicodebate: psicol. cult. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.2, pp.07-23. ISSN 24516600.

Introduction: Parental expectations refer to those beliefs parents have regarding their children's performance in a specific area. In particular, the present study examines parents' expectations about their children's prosocial behavior. Prosocial behavior is defined as voluntary performance carried out so as to benefit others. Objective: Developing an instrument in order to evaluate parental expectations about their children's prosocial behavior and conducting a preliminary assessment of its psychometric properties. Method: Initially, a pool of 50 items submitted to the assessment of five expert judges was drafted. The adjusted version was administered to a pilot sample of 20 parents who evaluated the understanding and clarity of the reactives used. Subsequently, the revised scale was administered to 486 parents of both sexes (M = 39.4; SD = 5.85) from the provinces of Córdoba and Entre Ríos (Argentina). Descriptive statistics for each item, their discriminative power and the homogeneity index corrected by item was evaluated. Results: All items were discriminative (p <.001). From a sub-sample of 267 cases, EFA was conducted in order to obtain an initial item refinement. The one-dimensional structure of the instrument was corroborated by CFA using a sub-sample of 219 cases. The final scale was composed of 28 items, operationalized through a single factor which explained 61% of the total variance. The internal consistency of the scale was satisfactory ( = .97). Conclusion: The analysis carried out so far show adequate psychometric properties, which suggests that the scale will successfully enable to assess parental expectations about prosocial behavior within the context of study.

Keywords : Parental expectations; Prosocial behavior; Psychometric study; Children.

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