Initial development and preliminary study of the social mentalities scale − Brief form

IF 1.7 Q3 PSYCHIATRY

Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jbct.2024.100513

Bruno Faustino , Isabel Fonseca , Isabel Santos , Catarina F. Raposo , Maurizio Brasini

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Abstract

Introduction

The Social Mentalities Scale (SMS) was developed to assess six motivational systems associated with the evolutionary perspective of human interactions. With 75 items SMS may be viewed as a long instrument with limitations such as time consumption, response fatigue and/or declining data quality. To address these issues, this study describes the development of the Social Mentalities Scale − Brief Form (BF-SMS) in a community sample.

Methods

The total sample (N = 471, M = 35.6, SD = 15.5), was divided in two subsamples (n = 236 and n = 235) where Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were used.

Results

EFA suggested a six-factor solution (X² = 10820.397, df = 2775, p < 0.001), and the final CFA suggested an adequate model fit (CFI = 0.99, TLI = 0.98, RMSEA = 0.053, [.044, 0.061], p < 0.001). The final form SMS-BF remained with 26 items and all subscales correlated positively with SMS subscales.

Conclusions

The SMS-BF may be an alternative for the SMS supplanting the identified limitations of the long forms. Further studies may address convergent, divergent and discriminant validities in other samples.

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社会心态量表的初步开发与初步研究

社会心态量表（SMS）的开发是为了评估与人类互动的进化观点相关的六种动机系统。短信有75个条目，可能被视为一种冗长的工具，具有诸如耗时、响应疲劳和/或数据质量下降等限制。为了解决这些问题，本研究在一个社区样本中描述了社会心态量表-简要表格（BF-SMS）的发展。方法将总样本（N = 471, M = 35.6, SD = 15.5）分为2个子样本（N = 236和N = 235），分别采用探索性因素分析（EFA）和验证性因素分析（CFA）。结果fa建议六因素解决方案(X2 = 10820.397, df = 2775, p <；0.001)，最终的CFA表明模型拟合足够(CFI = 0.99, TLI = 0.98, RMSEA = 0.053,[。][044, 0.061], p <；0.001)。最终形成的短信- bf量表有26个条目，所有的分量表都与短信分量表呈正相关。结论短信- bf可以作为短信的一种替代方式，取代长格式的局限性。进一步的研究可以解决其他样本的收敛效度、发散效度和判别效度。

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