TY - JOUR
T1 - Prosocial tendencies measure validation for Portuguese late adolescents
AU - Costa, Marisa
AU - Barbosa, Mariana Reis
AU - Veríssimo, Lurdes
AU - Ribeiro, Luísa Mota
AU - Nunes, Sara
AU - Carlo, Gustavo
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - The Prosocial Tendencies Measure (PTM; Carlo & Randall, 2002) is widely used for assessing prosocial tendencies. Assuming that there are differences in prosocial behavior between adolescents and adults, the current study aimed to further validate the Portuguese version of the PTM for adolescents. This instrument assesses six different types of prosocial tendencies – altruism, anonymous, dire, emotional, compliant and public. Designed to confirm this structure with Portuguese adolescents, this study collected a total of 1313 high school students’ prosocial behaviors perceptions. Confirmatory factor analysis corroborated the six-factor structure of the original validation. Furthermore, considering the students’ school year and gender, invariance analysis was executed and attested the PTM’s configural, metric (partially for gender) and scalar (partially for school year and gender) invariance. These findings further demonstrate that the Portuguese version of the PTM is reliable, enhancing the utility of this instrument to assess prosocial behaviors in adolescence.
AB - The Prosocial Tendencies Measure (PTM; Carlo & Randall, 2002) is widely used for assessing prosocial tendencies. Assuming that there are differences in prosocial behavior between adolescents and adults, the current study aimed to further validate the Portuguese version of the PTM for adolescents. This instrument assesses six different types of prosocial tendencies – altruism, anonymous, dire, emotional, compliant and public. Designed to confirm this structure with Portuguese adolescents, this study collected a total of 1313 high school students’ prosocial behaviors perceptions. Confirmatory factor analysis corroborated the six-factor structure of the original validation. Furthermore, considering the students’ school year and gender, invariance analysis was executed and attested the PTM’s configural, metric (partially for gender) and scalar (partially for school year and gender) invariance. These findings further demonstrate that the Portuguese version of the PTM is reliable, enhancing the utility of this instrument to assess prosocial behaviors in adolescence.
KW - Prosocial behaviors
KW - Confirmatory factor analysis
KW - Measurement invariance
KW - Adolescents
KW - Comportamentos prossociais
KW - Análise fatorial confirmatória
KW - Análise de invariância
KW - Adolescentes
U2 - 10.5380/riep.v26i1.77377
DO - 10.5380/riep.v26i1.77377
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 83
EP - 91
JO - Interação em Psicologia
JF - Interação em Psicologia
SN - 1981-8068
IS - 1
ER -