Design and validation of an instrument to measure attitudes towards the professional work of the psychologist

Diseño y validación de un instrumento para medir las actitudes frente a la labor profesional del psicólogo

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Fernando Riveros Munévar
Daniela Bohórquez Borda
Sergio López Castillo
Edwin Sepúlveda Rodríguez
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The aim of this psychometric study was to design and validate an instrument for measuring attitudes towards the professional work of psychologists. To do this, in instrument was designed after making a brief theoretical review, by


means of distribution tables in accordance to the components of the attitudes. Subsequently and after an evaluation process by judges, a pilot was conducted with 292 people as well as a factor analysis of the data obtained. After the evaluation processes, validity coefficients were obtained above 0.7 in all the reactants. An instrument made up of 28 reactants was created, these reactants were divided into three components (Cognitive: professional and scientific skills of the psychologist; Affective: prestige and effectiveness of the psychologist as a professional and Psychology as a discipline, and Behavioral: the tendency to use the professional services of the Psychologist). The instrument denoted high validity and reliability to measure the attitudes towards the professional work of the psychologist. We end our work by pointing out some possible contexts in which the study of the attitudes that users and nonusers may have towards the professional work of the psychologist and towards mental health services in general, might be of interest.

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