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- Title
Actitudes hacia la homoparentalidad: Validación psicométrica de dos escalas en una muestra de estudiantes mexicanos.
- Authors
Barragán-Pérez, Virginia; Berenzon-Gorn, Shoshana; García-De la Torre, Guadalupe Silvia; del Carmen Lara-Muñoz, María
- Abstract
Introduction: Same-sex marriage and adoption legalization constitute a growing and relatively new research field. Its study needs reliable and valid measures that allow to understand the society's perception about this new family order. Objective: Assess the psychometric properties of two scalesdevised to measure same-sex parenting attitudes: Attitudes toward Same-sex Families Scale (AFFH for its acronym in Spanish), and Scale on Beliefs about Children's Adjustment in Same-sex families (CANFH in Spanish). Methodology: AFFH scale is a 20- item measure designed to account for attitudes towards same-sex families. CANFH is a 14-item measure consisting of two scales, Individual Opposition (IO) and Normative Opposition (NO). Both are Likert scales with five response options (1. Strongly Agree to 5. Strongly Disagree). The CANFH was answered by 170 college students (78 (46%) males, 92 (54%) females; Average age: 18.4 SD 0.94), and the AFFH by 88 college students (35 (40%) males, 53 (60%) females, average age: 18.2 SD + 0.84). Results: AFFH items were organized into two factors that explained 46.14% of variance with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.91. CANFH items were grouped in a two factors structure that explained 65.49% of the variance (α = 0.94). Conclusions: CANFH and AFFH scales have adequate psychometric properties to measure Mexican college students' attitudes toward same-sex families and to assess the beliefs about children's adjustment in same-sex families. [Barragán-Pérez V, Berenzon-Gorn S, García-De la Torre GS, Lara-Muñoz MDC. Attitudes Towards Homoparentality: Psychometric Validation of two Scales in a Sample of Mexican Students. MedUNAB 2016; 19(2): 85- 94].
- Subjects
MEXICO; HOMOSEXUALITY; PARENTING; PSYCHOMETRICS; GAY parents; STUDENTS; STUDENT attitudes
- Publication
MedUNAB, 2016, Vol 19, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
0123-7047
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29375/01237047.2362