Keywords
questionnaire
factorial invariance
sex
age
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to identify differences associated with age and sex in the social self-concept measured by the Social Self-Concept Questionnaire (AUSO), by Fernández-Zabala (2011), made up for two scales: social responsibility and social competence. In the research participated a total of 767 students, 318 men (41.5 %) and 449 women (58.5 %), between 16 and 25 years (M = 19.97, SD = 1.86) divided into two age groups (under 20 years and older than 20). After checking the factorial invariance of the questionnaire by sex and age, differences in the scale of social responsibility are verified, but not on social competence, in favor of women and older group. These results represent an advance over previous knowledge on the development of social self-concept and at the same time endorse AUSO psychometric quality.
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