Estudos de Psicologia I Campinas I 32(2) I 173-185 I abril -junho 2015

The Filgueiras Depression Inventory is proposed as a new instrument, created specifi cally for the Brazilian culture, for screening of Major Depressive Episodes according to the categories of the DSM-V. Two studies were conducted for this purpose. Study's 1 sample consisted of 326 undergraduate psychology students. Single words or expressions were asked to represent overall depressive symptoms. The most cited formed the fi rst version of the Filgueiras Depression Inventory. Study 2 reported the psychometric properties of this new scale. The sample consisted of 471 volunteers recruited on the Internet and 238 volunteers undergraduate students. Factor analyses, convergent and discriminant validity and other Classical Test Theory indices revealed results consistent to expectations in the present study. Andrich's Rating Scale Modeling was used as an Item Response Theory method of analysis. The overall psychometric properties of the Filgueiras Depression Inventory were shown to be good, and this study supports the effectiveness of this scale as a new instrument that measures depressive episodes in the Brazil.

Satisfação no trabalho é uma variável psicológica que vem sendo estudada na ciência organizacional contemporânea por sua relação com uma série de variáveis como performance, turnover, comprometimento organizacional e resiliência. Um problema encontrado na literatura científi ca é a ausência de uniformidade no uso de medidas que quantifi quem a satisfação laboral. Com o objetivo de identifi car o estado da arte de instrumentos que avaliem a satisfação no trabalho no mundo, na América Latina e no Brasil, uma revisão sistemática nas bases Web of Knowledge, Scopus e SciELO foi conduzida. Os resultados geraram um montante de 357 artigos que, após aplicados critérios de exclusão, foram reduzidos a 154. Ao todo foram encontradas 62 escalas diferentes usadas em 42 países distintos em todo mundo. Em relação aos resultados globais, duas escalas foram identifi cadas como as mais utilizadas nos estudos internacionais, bem como em relação aos estudos realizados na América Latina. Já no Brasil, apenas uma escala pode ser considerada.

The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP-R) is one of the hallmarks for the measurement of ecological attitudes. Attention has been given to its psychometric properties during the last ten years, but no analyses have been conducted until now using an Item Response Theory (IRT) approach. With this purpose, a sample of 410 recruited responders answered the NEP-R's 15 items in Brazilian Portuguese. An item analysis was conducted considering: dimensionality; reliability; discrimination; item information; and item/person hierarchy. The results for the principal component analysis of standardized residues supports a unidimensional structure. Results for item fi t coeffi cients (INFIT and OUTFIT) indicate that the items have good predictive power for the response patterns in the latent trait continuum representing ecocentrism. In turn, the results for person discrimination and item hierarchy point out that the scale is restricted as to the levels of diffi culty it represents. The fi ndings include that the most revealing items for environmental attitudes in a Brazilian sample consist of the set of items representing the "limits of growth" facet.

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