Construção e levantamento de evidências iniciais de validade de uma escala para avaliação do planejamento cognitivo

Abstract

This research aimed to create a self-report scale in order to assess the cognitive planning in adults, and raise initial evidences of its validity. The construct in question was considered a subdomain of the Executive Functions and it was understood as the ability to define and structure actions and resources intentionally with the purpose to achieve an objective efficiently. Scale development process was performed in seven steps, which are: constitutive definition of planning and selection of components via theoretical review; interview with the target population; itens/instrument construction; judges analysis; semantical analisys; Cognitive Planning Scale (CPS) and CPSs psychometric analysis. Pilot version was made by 88 itens answered in a Likert scale, according to frequency criterion. CPS was answered by 279 participants of both sexes, with several scolarity and socioeconomic levels, residents in different Brazilian states, with ages ranging from 18 to 58. Data collection was primarily applied through electronic way, via link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3286TZQ. Psychometrics analysis data proved to be satisfactory. Based on itens analisys (item-total correlation) five itens were eliminated, providing a CPS final version formed by 83 items. Exploratory Factor Analisys indicated a solution of one factor, characterizing CPS with a unidemensional structure. Items factor loadings were adequate, what indicates that items are excellent representatives of cognitive planning behavior, particularly 41 itens showed loadings from 0.60 to 0.79. CPS obtained a high precision level of 0.98. The favourable results found in the CPS pilot version encourage us to move forward on its developmental process. It is intended to make new validation and standardization studies in a representative sample from population.