Contributo alla validazione della versione italiana del regulatory focus Questionnaire di Higgins

Titolo Rivista RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Autori/Curatori Alessandra Monni, L. Francesca Scalas
Anno di pubblicazione 2020 Fascicolo 2020/2
Lingua Italiano Numero pagine 31 P. 469-499 Dimensione file 310 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIP2020-002003
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Due teorie particolarmente rilevanti nello studio delle tendenze di approccio ed evitamento sono la Teoria della Sensibilità al Rinforzo di Gray e la Teoria dei foci regolatori di Higgins. La teoria di Gray descrive l’approccio e l’evitamento come due sensibilità biologiche che guidano gli individui a raggiungere bisogni primari. La teoria di Higgins al contrario, afferma che queste tendenze influen-zano la regolazione di sé e guidano gli individui a raggiungere bisogni secondari. Mentre per la teoria di Gray è stata sviluppata la validazione italiana della relati-va scala di misura BIS-BAS, per la teoria di Higgins manca la versione italiana dello strumento Regulatory focus questionnaire (RFQ) e lo scopo del lavoro è quello di fornire un primo contributo alla sua validazione. Dall’analisi fattoriale esplorativa (n = 83 studenti universitari, età media = 22.89, DS = 6.07) e dalla successiva analisi fattoriale confermativa (n = 360, età media = 34.91, DS = 13.41) è emersa una solida struttura fattoriale e una buona validità interna. Nell’analisi dell’invarianza, la struttura fattoriale è risultata equivalente per ma-schi e femmine con eccezione di un singolo item. Infine, nell’analisi della validità divergente è risultata una chiara distinzione tra i foci regolatori del RFQ e le scale BIS BAS. In conclusione, la versione italiana del RFQ mostra soddisfacenti proprietà psicometriche, brevità e facilità nella somministrazione e, pertanto, rappresenta un valido strumento per la misura dell’approccio-evitamento secondo la teoria di Higgins.;

Keywords:Focus di promozione, focus di prevenzione, Regulatory Focus Questionnaire.

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Alessandra Monni, L. Francesca Scalas, Contributo alla validazione della versione italiana del regulatory focus Questionnaire di Higgins in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA " 2/2020, pp 469-499, DOI: 10.3280/RIP2020-002003