Análisis factorial de la escala de actitudes hacia el alumnado con discapacidad en educación física (EAADEF)

  1. Iñiguez Santiago, María del Carmen
  2. Ferriz, Roberto
  3. Martínez Galindo, María Celestina
  4. Cebrián Sánchez, Marta María
  5. Reina Vaillo, Raul
Journal:
Psychology, Society & Education

ISSN: 1989-709X,  2171-2085

Year of publication: 2017

Volume: 9

Issue: 3

Pages: 493-504

Type: Article

DOI: 10.25115/PSYE.V9I3.652 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The inclusion of students with disabilities in physical education (PE) is directly influenced by the peers´ attitudes, which requires valid and reliable tools to measure this attitude. The aim of this study was to create and to analyse the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure attitudes towards the inclusion of students with disabilities in the PE classes. This study involved 609 PE students from 14 to 19 years old. Four exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and one confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were conducted. We analysed the psychometric properties of the scale (cognitive and behavioural components) and its relation with four socio-demographic variables. The reliability of the cognitive component was below that recommended and the EFA didn’t support a model formed by two dimensions of the attitude. A one-dimensional measure with four elements of the behavioural component was obtained. The Scale of Attitudes towards Students with Disabilities in Physical Education (SASDPE) revealed excellent adjustment indexes in the CFA, being invariant with respect to the socio-demographic variables. High values of internal consistency of the items and for the attitude construct (≥.77) were also found. This scale offers new solutions to some limitations revealed in previous instruments to evaluate attitudes towards disability in PE.

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Como se puede observar en la Tabla 2, el cuarto AFE reveló unos valores de saturación para los ítems de .75 o superiores, y una varianza explicada del 61.23%. Debido a los buenos valores de saturación para todos los ítems, a que se obtuvo el porcentaje de varianza explicada más alto de todos los AFE realizados y que además los valores de fiabilidad de los ítems (α = .79) y del constructo conductual (ω = .78) fueron buenos, se eligió este modelo unidimensional de cuatro ítems para ser testado en un AFC con la segunda submuestra de 298 estudiantes.

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