Abstract

BAPTISTA, Makilim Nunes  and  PALLINI, Ana Celi. Reasons to be alive brazilian scale (bemviver): construction and content validity. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.1, pp.100-115.  Epub Apr 30, 2021. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/21psd220110.

Assessing people's reasons for living can provide health data in a positive light and indirectly measure risks and symptoms of various disorders such as depression and the phenomenon of suicide. However, in addition to the fact that there are few instruments that propose to measure these aspects, they hardly have a construction that takes into account people's living reality, as well as different samples, an aspect that has been widely criticized in research in psychology. Thus, the aim of this study is to present the process of building an instrument based on theoretical categories arising from the discourse of a heterogeneous sample, as well as to search for evidence of validity based on the content. For this, 72 items were prepared, divided into eight categories called: Family support, Social support, Spirituality / religiosity, Perspectives and plans for the future, Self-love, Health, Enjoyment of life and Professional fulfillment. Each category had at least seven items. Subsequently, the instrument called the Brazilian Scale of Reasons for Living (BEMVIVER) was subjected to the evaluation of five expert judges and had its semantic adequacy tested in the pilot study with people with low education. The analysis of agreement between the judges measured by Kappa revealed substantial concordances (K= 0.68) and, through the analysis of the suggestions given, there was a reduction of 5 items, remaining in a version of 67 items for the pilot study, a version that maintained at the end of the study.

Keywords : evaluation; scale; reasons for living; validity.

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