Propriedades psicométricas dos instrumentos de mensuração de agency: uma revisão sistemática

Maria Julia  Pegoraro Gai; Roberto Moraes  Cruz; João Nuno Ribeiro Viseu; Synara Sepúlveda Sales; Cyntia Nunes

doi:10.22235/cp.v17i2.2706

Authors

Maria Julia Pegoraro Gai Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8481-1112
Roberto Moraes Cruz Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-3498
João Nuno Ribeiro Viseu Universidade de Évora https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9817-7300
Synara Sepúlveda Sales Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7792-4952
Cyntia Nunes Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9150-2254

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v17i2.2706

Keywords:

agency, personal agency, psychometric properties, measurement instruments

Abstract

Agency capacity, related to the perception of protagonism on making decisions about one's own life, currently presents a previous record of investigations based on empirical studies, but there is still a lack of definition around the concept and the measurement of the phenomenon, considering the simplifications and generalizations observed. With that in mind, the goal of this systematic literature review is to analyze the psychometric properties of instruments for measuring personal agency. A systematic literature review was carried out with searches in six Brazilian and international databases on publications from up to 2020. We identified 23 instruments with this proposal, from the 55 documents analyzed. There were fragilities regarding the robustness of the presented psychometric properties, since most of them are limited to the internal structure validity. The convergent and divergent validities are little explored. An agency measurement instrument with statistical validation for the Brazilian context was not identified, only one instrument with semantic validation was found. The development of an instrument adapted to the Brazilian context is the main recommendation for future studies.

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Author Biographies

Roberto Moraes Cruz, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Doutor em Engenharia de Produção pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Docente do Programa de pós-graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Synara Sepúlveda Sales, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Mestra em Psicologia pela Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná

Cyntia Nunes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Mestranda em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

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