Resumen

GARCIA-MENDEZ, Mirna; PENALOZA-GOMEZ, Rafael; MENDEZ-SANCHEZ, María del Pilar  y  RIVERA ARAGON, Sofía. Construction and validation of the maternal locus of control scale. Cienc. Psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.12, n.1, pp.35-44. ISSN 1688-4094.  https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v12i1.1593.

The objective of this investigation was to obtain construct validity and internal consistency of the maternal locus of control scale for mothers with adolescent children. 765 mothers from single-parent and biparental families in Mexico City participated voluntarily (M age = 42 years, SD = 6.66). Non-probabilistic, convenience sampling was used. An orthogonal rotation principal component analysis was performed. 30 items and 6 factors that explained 51.09% of the variance (internal consistency = .740) were obtained. Structural equation modeling was performed to confirm structure. The index of adjustment values were: chi square = 611.528, df = 356 > .05; NFI = .900; IFI = .956; CFI = .955; RMSEA = .031 (LO 90 = .026, HI 90 = .035). The scale proved to be valid and reliable to measure the maternal locus of control

Palabras clave : efficacy; measurement; mothers; biparentality; single-parent.

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