Abstract

REZENDE, Alessandro Teixeira et al. Scale of Beliefs on the "Cure" of Homosexuality (ECCH): Development and Psychometric Evidences. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.1, pp.1-19.  Epub Oct 03, 2021. ISSN 1794-4724.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.8438.

The present study aimed to develop the Belief on the Cure of Homosexuality Scale (BCHS), gathering evidence of factorial, discriminant, and convergent validity, as well as its internal consistency. For this, a study was conducted with 225 university students (mean age = 21.3 and SD = 5.78, ranging from 18 to 59 years; 68.5 % female), who answered the BCHS, the Beliefs about Homosexuality Scale (BHS), Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS), and demographic questions. An analysis of the principal components allowed to identify a structure with five components: religious beliefs (α = 0.95), moral beliefs (α = 0.95), biological beliefs (α = 0.96), beliefs unfavorable to sexual reversion (α = 0.93), and psychological beliefs (α = 0.92). Corroborating evidence of convergent and discriminant validity, the BCHS dimensions correlated in the expected direction with the BHS and MC-SDS measures. Results allowed concluding that the final version of the BCHS, consisting of 20 items, presents adequate psychometric evidence to evaluate beliefs about the cure of homosexuality and can be used in research in the Brazilian context, allowing to know its possible correlates.

Keywords : Beliefs; cure; homosexuality; validity; precision.

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