Cross-cultural adaptation of the Parcours Amoureux des Jeunes - PAJ inventory of Canadian origin to the Brazilian context.

Ohana Cunha Do Nascimento,Catherine Moreau,Kátia Santana Freitas,Maria Conceição Oliveira Costa,Martine Hebért

doi:10.1590/1413-812320152011.02912015

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320152011.02912015

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Analyzing violent events in the amorous trajectory of young people mobilizes researchers worldwide. The scope of this study is to perform the cross-cultural adaptation and content validation of the Canadian Parcours Amoureux des Jeunes (PAJ) inventory in the Brazilian context. It is a methodological study with the following steps: (a) translation and back-translation; (b) committee of experts (10) for analysis of equivalence, clarity and matching percentages; (c) calculation of the Content Validity Index / CVI. This analysis generated Pilot version III (d) submitted to a pre-test group of 36 adolescents aged 14 to 24 of both sexes to obtain cultural, conceptual, semantic and idiomatic equivalence. The PAJ showed adequate content validity (CVI 0.97). In section 1 (sociodemographic aspects of youths and families inherent to the Canadian context), the questions were appropriate to the Brazilian context shown by the low value of the CVI. Cross-cultural adaptation and content validation processes showed that the PAJ had adequate clarity and equivalence properties. This step makes it viable to conduct psychometric analysis to assess the replicability and reliability of the instrument to be applied in the Brazilian context.

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The cultural diversity of a continental country like Brazil requires the understanding of the dynamics of social and affective relations of young people with their families and partners, making violence a complex topic by integrating multiple factors related to young people’s relationships
To assess the proportion of agreement among evaluators, for each Parcours Amoureux des Jeunes (PAJ) question, for clarity and equivalence, we considered appropriate those whose score reached levels 3 and 4, whose agreement parameter pointed to a value greater than or equal to 80%
In the context of a continental country, such as Brazil, the methodological approach that comprehends the transcultural adaptation and psychometric analysis of an instrument for measurement of a phenomenon should contemplate particularities related to cultural diversity

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The cultural diversity of a continental country like Brazil requires the understanding of the dynamics of social and affective relations of young people with their families and partners, making violence a complex topic by integrating multiple factors related to young people’s relationships. Under this perspective, it is necessary to study the course of adolescent’s love life to understand how they establish and maintain their connections under multiple possibilities and interferences for the consolidation of these bonds. One can observe that these connections provide social protection against adversities and conflicts that are common in this period of life, helping the personality development in a more stable and safe way[1]

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