Prosocial tendencies measure validation for Portuguese late adolescents

Marisa Costa; Mariana Reis Barbosa; Lurdes Veríssimo; Luísa Mota Ribeiro; Sara Nunes; Gustavo Carlo

doi:10.5380/riep.v26i1.77377

Prosocial tendencies measure validation for Portuguese late adolescents

Marisa Costa, Mariana Reis Barbosa, Lurdes Veríssimo, Luísa Mota Ribeiro, Sara Nunes, Gustavo Carlo

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-91
Number of pages	9
Journal	Interação em Psicologia
Volume	26
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5380/riep.v26i1.77377
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

Keywords

Prosocial behaviors
Confirmatory factor analysis
Measurement invariance
Adolescents

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