Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9049819 Revista Iberoamericana de Fisioterapia y Kinesiología 2005 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
This study analyzes the factor of the personality “neuroticism (psychological apprehension)”. It is fit in inside a more extensive investigation that develops a method of scaling of the self-perceptions (sensibility, contraction and tolerance) before different levels of application of current TENS. Said work requires to control this variable of the personality, that can affect to this type of research method. We present the construction and validation of a new survey type instrument that we denominated: “Scale of Personal Psychological Apprehension (EAPP)”. This drift of the questionnaire of Eysenck EPQ-RS1, of extensive disclosure and application in environments as the psychology. The EAPP is an adaptation, so much in its side léxica as of content, of the ítems that measure the factor N (neuroticismo) that is one of the dimensions collected inside the questionnaire of Eysenck. Especially the study of validation is undertaken and analysis of the reliability of said scale EAPP. Consequently, the methodology is of character correlacional, extensively employee in all the studies on the quality of the measures. The useful sample97 students of Physiotherapy they conform it. The conclusions to the ones that have arrived imply the quality of the instrument, being shown valid and reliable for the analysis of this factor N, that would be able to influence in the car-appraisals of the subjects. In final, we include an useful instrument “scale EAPP”, to be employed in the very diverse studies of the environment of knowledge of the Physiotherapy and, therefore, of the Sciences of the Health that need the appreciations of the own subjects investigated.
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