Diferencias asociadas al sexo en las puntuaciones total y factoriales del Purpose-In-Life Test en universitarios españoles

Abstract

Se analizan las diferencias en las puntuaciones total y factoriales de la versión española del Purpose-In-Life Test [PIL] (Crumbaugh & Maholic, 1969; Noblejas de la Flor, 1994) asocia-das al sexo, en un grupo de 309 estudiantes universitarios (207 mujeres y 102 hombres) de edades comprendidas entre 18 y 45 años (M = 21.4; DT = 3.254). El PIL evalúa logro de sen-tido de la vida vs. vacío existencial (Frankl, 1994). Las mujeres obtienen puntuaciones medias superiores a los hombres, tanto en la puntuación total del PIL como en sus diferentes factores. El análisis estadístico (t de Student) muestra que el sexo da lugar a diferencias estadísticamen-te significativas en la puntuación total (t = 2.272; p = .024) y de los factores «Percepción de sentido» (t = 2.065; p = .040) y «Metas y tareas» (t = 3.385; p = .001) del PIL.

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“…The difference was significant for the purpose subscale. On the one hand, these results are consistent with those found in Spanish validation studies of one-dimensional MiL measures, such as the PIL, where women had higher scores than men (41). On the other hand, in studies of one-dimensional MiL measurements carried out in Anglo-Saxon samples, no differences were found in the MiL constructs depending on gender (1,2).…”

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“…Cronbach's alpha obtained for the PIL test (.945) is comparable to that obtained by Armas, López-Castedo and Sánchez (2018) of .90 and by Noblejas (2011) of .898, which indicates that the PIL test is reliable. On the other hand, the mean values of the PIL test obtained are within the values reported for the Spanish population of the PIL test, according to the works of García-Alandete, Martínez, Lozano and Gallego-Pérez (2011) Gottfried (2016) who, in the case of Argentina, found that the group aged 21-30 had an average M = 107.8, SD = 16.4 and for the group 31-60 years an average of M = 112.9, SD = 16.3.…”

“…The applied PIL test was developed by Crumbaugh and Maholick (1964), based on the existential theory of Viktor Frankl (1905Frankl ( -1997 to assess the level at which an individual experiences the meaning of life. The Spanish version of the test, which has been applied to Spanish university students, was applied (García-Alandete, Martínez, Lozano, & Gallego-Pérez, 2011;Martínez, García-Alandete, Sellés, Bernabé, & Soucase, 2012;Noblejas, 1994). For the interpretation of the PIL test, the value of each item was added to calculate the total score of the test; the higher the score, the greater the sense of life the person experiences.…”

Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology

“…The Revised Purpose in Life questionnaire (PIL-R; Harlow et al, 1987 ) was revised from one developed by Crumbaugh ( 1968 ), based on Frankl's ( 1985 ) existential perspective. This work used the bifactorial version (García-Alandete et al, 2011 ) with two scales: Satisfaction and Sense of Life (SSL) with six items, four of which are reversed (i.e., “I am usually completely bored”), and Goals and Purposes in Life (GPL) with four items, two of which are reversed (i.e., “In life I have no goals or aims at all”). The bifactorial structure of García-Alandete et al ( 2011 ) obtained good internal consistency, both for the scale (α = 0.86) and for the factors (α = 0.84 and α = 0.71), respectively.…”