Adaptación y validación del ITQ (Interpersonal Trust Questionnaire). Una nueva medida del apoyo social

Abstract

The present paper reports on the results of the Spanish adaptation and validation of the Interpersonal Trust Questionnaire (ITQ – Forbes & Roger, 1999), conducted with a sample of Venezuelan college students. The original 48 items scale measures the capacity of individuals to use social support effectively, trough three different dimensions: Fear of disclosure (FOD), Social coping (SC) and Social intimacy (SI). The scale, jointly with other personality questionnaires, was administered to a sample of 292 university students from three different universities in Caracas-Venezuela. Results from the factor analysis resembled only two of the three dimensions of the questionnaire, comprising 46 items with high internal consistencies in each. The concurrent validity study showed the dimensions to be related in the expected way, while the predictive validity study conducted with a different sample of 328 unemployed people revealed the fear of disclosure to be positively related to a poor general health status and the social coping to be protective of the individual’s psychological health.