Propriedades psicométricas do Defensive Style Questionnaire 40 (DSQ-40) para a população prisional / Psychometric properties of the Defensive Style Questionnaire 40 (DSQ-40) for the imprisoned population

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2007

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This study refers to the psychometric properties of the Defensive Style Questionnaire- 40 (DSQ-40) for the imprisoned population. It discusses the relevance in the use of precise and valid psychological measures in the prison context, according to a perspective of psychosocial reintegration. The concepts of the positive Psychology, resilience and defenses are used as an epistemic-theorical basis. Afterwards, it discusses the use of defense measuring instruments as a means to estimate the ways individuals deal with the demands come from reality. It emphasizes the use of the DSQ-40, which is not only simple to use and correct, but also shows satisfactory psychometric characteristics, according to national and international studies. The instrument is a questionnaire self-report like and it contains 40 items developed to evaluate the resulting conscious defense mechanisms; it aims to identify the typical style which people deal conscious or unconsciously- with their conflicts, according to the postulation that they are able to communicate precisely through their behaviors. The DSQ-40 evaluates 20 defenses, divided in three factors: mature, neurotic and immature. The instrument applied to a sample of 271 prisoners (208 men and 63 women), who live in three prisons located in São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul States. The precision of the instrument was checked through the Pearsons co-relation coefficient; the results pointed that only the immature factor showed time stability. The internal consistence of the instrument was estimated through the Cronbachs Alpha coefficient and the average co-relation of the items, but only the immature factor showed expressive values (Alpha = 0,80). The criterion validity was estimated according to co-relation coefficient proposed by Spearman and it was used as a convergent criterion of the scores obtained by the Resilience Scale (n=46); The Symptom Evaluation Scale SES-40 (n=38) as a discriminating validity criterion. The study of the construct validity was done through the procedures of factorial analysis according to the analysis of the main components and varimax rotation method; three interpretative factors were obtained (25,98% of the variances): the immature, the mature and the neurotic factors, which correspond to the study of validation done with the clinical sample. Ten defenses showed a satisfactory factorial importance (over 0,30) in the immature factor, two in the mature factor and three in the neurotic factor. The results suggest the need of modifications and adaptations in the items that measure the mature and neurotic defenses in order to try to expand the respective reliable coefficients and the validity of the construct.

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adaptation validade adaptação validity presidiários prisoner dsq-40 reliability psicologia precisão dsq-40

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