Factorial Structure of the Frugality Scale: Exploratory Evidence

Pedro P Pires,Natacha De Barros Candido,Érica De Lana Meirelles,Ana Carolina Monnerat Fioravanti Bastos,Júlia Mulinari Peixoto,Leonardo De Barros Mose

doi:10.1590/1413-82712019240101

Abstract

Abstract This article aims to promote an investigation of the psychometric properties of Frugality Scale adapted to Brazilian Portuguese. Frugality is characterized by using and consuming goods in a resourceful way, fully exploring its durability as well. To this end, 626 people responded to an online form that contained the frugality scale. Procedures such as non-graphical solutions to the scree plot, exploratory graphical analysis and a Schmid-Leiman factor solution point to evidence that the scale’s structure is not one-dimensional but two-dimensional. Finally, modeling strategies also indicate that a bifactor solution can be applied.

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Resumo Este artigo tem por objetivo promover uma investigação das propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Frugalidade (Lastovicka et al, 1999) adaptada para o português brasileiro
The sampling technique of the current research can be characterized as convenience sampling, with subjects being recruited by students from Centro Universitário Celso Lisboa’s psychology laboratory, at Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, and from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), located in the same city
Results for dimensionality assessment were obtained from the package nFactors by plotting the non-graphical solutions to scree test

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Introduction

Resumo Este artigo tem por objetivo promover uma investigação das propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Frugalidade (Lastovicka et al, 1999) adaptada para o português brasileiro. Foram utilizados quatro procedimentos com o objetivo de investigar a estrutura da escala de frugalidade por um framework exploratório. Se utilizaron cuatro procedimientos con el objetivo de investigar la estructura de la Escala de Frugalidad por un framework exploratorio. Los procedimientos como las soluciones no gráficas para el scree plot, el análisis gráfico exploratorio y la solución factorial Schmid-Leiman apuntan hacia la posibilidad de que la escala no sea unidimensional, sino bidimensional. The country ascended as an emergent economy until the year of 2001. Through all this time, and even frugality has been playing a major role as a value in the Brazilian society, it does not necessarily implies going through economic hardships – frugality is a matter of choice.

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