Abstract

VELASCO, Eduardo; MERCADO, Serafín J.  and  REYES LAGUNES, Isabel. Construction and Psychometric Validation of the Dwelling's Privacy Scale. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2014, vol.4, n.2, pp.1510-1519. ISSN 2007-4719.

The main objective of this research was to generate a reliable and valid scale that assessed dwelling privacy in Mexico City's population. A scale was developed specifically for this purpose. The scale included 20 items with five options for answers (Never, few times, sometimes, frequently and always). The scale was applied to a sample of 200 Mexico City's inhabitants in order to obtain its psychometrical validation. The distribution of the participants was as follow: age between 14 to 75; 110 women and 90 men: diverse occupations and school levels. A proper analysis took place in order to learn about the items discriminative power, reliability and valid factorial structure. The final scale was conformed by 11 items organized by three factors as follow: 1) Information Access Control, 2) Person Access Control and 3) Intimacy it explains 68% of variance and has a reliability of Cronbach Alpha =0.89. Afterwards a Confirmatory Factor Analysis was conducted to verify if the structure obtained from the Principal Component Analysis was correct, and a good fit was achieved (df=39, x2= 48.07, p=.151; CFI= .987; RMSEA= .032).

Keywords : Privacy; Dwelling; Psychometric Validation; Cultural Relevance and Assessment.

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