TY - JOUR
T1 - Initial psychometric evidence from a scale of mistreatment of thesis advisor (EMAT)
AU - Mamani-Benito, Oscar Javier
AU - Ventura-León, José
AU - Carranza Esteban, Renzo Felipe
AU - Tito-Betancur, Madona
AU - Hilasaca-Mamani, Kristel Raquel
AU - Rojas Bellido, Esmeralda Marleny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier España, S.L.U.
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - Introduction: The creation of measurement instruments are significant contributions to the measurement and advancement of scientific research. Objective: To design and validate a Thesis Advisor Abuse Scale (EMAT) in a sample of Peruvian thesis students. Methods: Instrumental design study where a scale of 20 items distributed in 3 factors (advisor, jury and administrative) was designed and validated. It had the participation of 274 thesis students (61.7% women). The Aiken V coefficient was used to analyze the evidence of content-based validity, the confirmatory factor analysis was used for construct validity, and reliability was studied through the Omega coefficient. Results: Adequate psychometric properties were obtained. The 20 items of the EMAT received a favorable evaluation through expert judgment, the confirmatory factor analysis supports the internal structure of 3 factors, reporting satisfactory goodness-of-fit índices, in addition, the correlation between factors was significant (P<.05) and the reliability acceptable. Conclusion: The EMAT is valid and reliable for measuring mistreatment of the thesis advisor.
AB - Introduction: The creation of measurement instruments are significant contributions to the measurement and advancement of scientific research. Objective: To design and validate a Thesis Advisor Abuse Scale (EMAT) in a sample of Peruvian thesis students. Methods: Instrumental design study where a scale of 20 items distributed in 3 factors (advisor, jury and administrative) was designed and validated. It had the participation of 274 thesis students (61.7% women). The Aiken V coefficient was used to analyze the evidence of content-based validity, the confirmatory factor analysis was used for construct validity, and reliability was studied through the Omega coefficient. Results: Adequate psychometric properties were obtained. The 20 items of the EMAT received a favorable evaluation through expert judgment, the confirmatory factor analysis supports the internal structure of 3 factors, reporting satisfactory goodness-of-fit índices, in addition, the correlation between factors was significant (P<.05) and the reliability acceptable. Conclusion: The EMAT is valid and reliable for measuring mistreatment of the thesis advisor.
KW - Mistreatment
KW - Peru
KW - Thesis advisor
KW - Validation study
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U2 - 10.1016/j.edumed.2021.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.edumed.2021.05.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110238806
SN - 1575-1813
VL - 22
SP - 298
EP - 304
JO - Educacion Medica
JF - Educacion Medica
IS - 6
ER -