Abstract

HERNANDEZ-GUZMAN, Laura et al. THE SPANISH VERSION OF THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL AVOIDANCE SCALE (CBAS). rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.41, n.1, pp.99-108. ISSN 0120-0534.

Abstract The aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties, construct validity and internal consistency, of the Spanish version of the Cognitive- Behavioral Avoidance Scale (CBAS), proposed originally in English by Ottenbreit and Dobson (2004). Also, it intended to test if the structural model found by these authors was confirmed. 340 students of a Mexican public university, 60 men and 280 women, completed the CBAS, the Ruminative Response Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the avoidance coping model originally found in Canadian students fit the data, coinciding with the structure of 4 correlated factors: Behavioral Social, Behavioral Nonsocial, Cognitive Social and Cognitive Nonsocial. Construct validity and acceptable internal consistency of the CBAS were also demonstrated.

Keywords : CBAS; structural equation modeling; validity; avoidance; Psychometry..

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