Psychometric Properties of the Acoso Sexual en las Instituciones de Educación Superior Scale (ASIES) in an Ecuadorian Sample

Maria De La Paz Guarderas Albuja; María De Lourdes Larrea Castelo; Rodrigo Moreta Herrera; Carlos Marcelo Reyes Valenzuela; Diego  Esteban Vaca  Paredes; Daniela Acosta

doi:10.21500/20112084.5970

Psychometric Properties of the Acoso Sexual en las Instituciones de Educación Superior Scale (ASIES) in an Ecuadorian Sample

Maria De La Paz Guarderas Albuja, María De Lourdes Larrea Castelo, Rodrigo Moreta Herrera, Carlos Marcelo Reyes Valenzuela, Diego Esteban Vaca Paredes, Daniela Acosta

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Sexual harassment has become increasingly common in Ecuador’s higher education centers. However, due to the lack of instruments that evaluate sexual harassment, the magnitude of this phenomenon in Ecuador is unknown. This research aims to analyze the construct validity and internal consistency reliability of a sexual harassment measurement scale in higher education institutions (ASIES). The instrument analyzes 21 behaviors related to sexual harassment. The sample consisted of 4,628 people. A descriptive analysis of the items, item-total correlation analysis, and both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis are performed to test the internal structure of the scale. It was found that the 4-factor model and a second-order factor presented a better fit (CFI = .99, TLI = .99, SRMR = .075, and RMSEA = .018). The results confirm the four dimensions proposed.

Translated title of the contribution	Propiedades Psicométricas de la Escala Acoso Sexual en las Instituciones de Educación Superior (ASIES) en una Muestra Ecuatoriana
Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
Journal	International Journal of Psychological Research
Volume	16
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5970
State	Published - 28 Apr 2023

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Grant to research of the Plataforma por el Derecho a la Salud (Platform for the Right to Health), implemented by “Fundación Donum” with the support of the Belgian NGO Development Co-operation Fund-FOS and by Grant to Research Projects awarded by the “Universidad Politécnica Salesiana”.

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Copyright: © 2023. International Journal of Psychological Research provides open access to all its contents under the terms of the license creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Keywords

Higher education institutions
Reliability
Scale
Sexual harassment
Validation studies

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111A Education

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Guarderas Albuja, M. D. L. P., Larrea Castelo, M. D. L., Moreta Herrera, R., Reyes Valenzuela, C. M., Vaca Paredes, D. E., & Acosta, D. (2023). Psychometric Properties of the Acoso Sexual en las Instituciones de Educación Superior Scale (ASIES) in an Ecuadorian Sample. International Journal of Psychological Research, 16(16), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.5970

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Psychometric Properties of the Acoso Sexual en las Instituciones de Educación Superior Scale (ASIES) in an Ecuadorian Sample. / Guarderas Albuja, Maria De La Paz; Larrea Castelo, María De Lourdes; Moreta Herrera, Rodrigo et al.
In: International Journal of Psychological Research, Vol. 16, No. 16, 28.04.2023, p. 1-13.

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Psychometric Properties of the Acoso Sexual en las Instituciones de Educación Superior Scale (ASIES) in an Ecuadorian Sample

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