Design and validation of a scale of attitudes towards people with homosexual orientation, study with university students Diseño y validación de una escala de actitudes hacia personas con orientación homosexual: estudio con estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To design and corroborate a psychometrical test which measures the different outlooks of university students in Colombia towards people with a homosexual orientation. METHOD: A theoretical review was applied to the study to determine the main factors of the test. Also, a clear-cut chart was designed and with it a Licket reactive scale.  Subsequently, the items validation process was executed by a group of expert judges and all the necessary modifications were made in order to have accurate results. The first application was performed on 179 participants; the obtained results were represented throughout a factor and reliability analysis. In order to acquire a confirmatory factorial analysis, a second application was made on a different group of 200 students. RESULTS: After the analysis, it was obtained a scale with 18 items which were distributed among four main factors. These factors expound the 56.2% of the total accumulated variance with a factorial model that shows adequated indexes of the goodness of fit, being alpha Cronbach of, 926. DISCUSSION: It was obtained a valid, reliable and consistent scale that allows the evaluation of university students towards people with a homosexual orientation.