Diseño y validación de la escala de pensamiento pseudocientífico

Víctor García-Belaunde Velarde; Freddy Roberpierre Jaimes Alvarez; Fabrizio Eliseo López De Pomar

doi:10.21142/DES-1501-2023-0010

Diseño y validación de la escala de pensamiento pseudocientífico

Translated title of the contribution: Design and validation of the pseudoscientific thinking scale

Víctor García-Belaunde Velarde, Freddy Roberpierre Jaimes Alvarez, Fabrizio Eliseo López De Pomar

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The objective of this research was to design and validate a pseudoscientific thinking scale. The study is of an instrumental type, whose sample consisted of 686 Peruvian adult participants (42% women). Regarding construct validity, an exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analysis were performed; and for reliability evidence, McDonald’s omega coefficient was used. The results of the EFA showed a unidimensional model of 8 items. The CFA presented an adequate fit, χ2(20) = 35.5, CFI =.995, RMSEA =.047, SRMR =.026, TLI =.994 thus confirming the one-dimensional structure with factor loadings between the values of λ =.68 and λ =.86 (ω =.92). Finally, the academic and social implications of this new psychometric instrument are discussed.

Translated title of the contribution	Design and validation of the pseudoscientific thinking scale
Original language	Spanish
Article number	e0010
Journal	Desde el Sur
Volume	15
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21142/DES-1501-2023-0010
State	Published - 30 Jan 2023
Externally published	Yes

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