The Control of Personal, Social and Economic Life: Development and Exploratory Study of a Scale of Measure
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Keywords

Control of personal life
exploratory analysis
confirmatory analysis

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The Control of Personal, Social and Economic Life: Development and Exploratory Study of a Scale of Measure. (2012). Universitas Psychologica, 12(1), 15-20. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy12-1.cvps
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics psychometrics of a scale on the control of the personal life, analyzing its factorial structure by means of an exploratory and confirmatory analysis of its dimensions. The size of the final study was 8.504 interviews and the basic criterion was of stratification was the municipal district in 21 strata. The results indicate that the items in each of the dimensions and his weight factorials are acceptable and are related to generic terms of reference on the attribution of control. Also, the opposing indexes of goodness of fit of each one of the proposed models, throw interesting information about the possibilities that this scale offers.

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