Propiedades psicométricas del cuestionario de dependencia emocional a la pareja

Abstract

This study aimed to establish the psychometric properties of the Questionnaire for Evaluating Emotional Dependency to the couple. The sample consisted of 196 students of the school advertises N ° 80819 "Francisco Lizarzaburu" district of El Porvenir, Trujillo Province in the Department of La Libertad, the sample was characterized because they were all subjects of both sexes, between 14 and 17 years of age. The results reveal that the construct validity obtained by the correlation coefficient item - test, which reached values higher than 0.20 corresponding to a level of appreciation Very Good. The internal consistency reliability obtained by Cronbach's alpha coefficient was significant (0.917) corresponding to a valuation High, but items 1, 4, 10 and 12, were unreliable, so they were removed. Finally, we obtained the general percentile norms for the dimensions given that there were no differences by sex: reaching the conclusion that the instrument has adequate psychometric properties to estimate the couple Emotional Dependency in the cultural context of secondary students district of El Porvenir.