Invariance of the Emotional Dependence Questionnaire between sexes and relationship status in university students

• Autores: Lemos, Mariantonia, Vásquez-Villegas, Carolina, Román-Calderón, Juan Pablo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/20489
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/20489
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Dependence; gender differences; couples; structural equation modeling; factor analysis; Dependencia; diferencias entre sexos; parejas; modelos de ecuaciones estructurales; análisis factorial; Dépendance; différence entre le genres; modèle d’équations estructurelle; analyse factoriel; Dependência; diferenças de gênero; casais; modelos de equações estruturais; análise fatorial

This work aimed to explore the factorial structure and the measurement invariance between groups of the emotional dependence questionnaire (EDQ). Participants included a random sample of 569 university students, 67.8% women and 51.2% had a romantic partner. The multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) showed metric invariance for the EDQ. Particularly, the findings indicate that five of six scales of the questionnaire have an average variance extracted higher than 53% and a composite reliability of more than 0.75; the borderline expression scale was excluded. It was found that the EDQ has a strong measurement invariance degree between genders, χ2(365) = 750.14, p<.05; RMSEA= .07; CFI= .92; TLI= .92; and the presence of a partner, χ2(365) = 750.30, p<.05; RMSEA= .06; CFI= .92; TLI= .92.