Abstract

OROZCO ROSALES, Angélica Daniela  and  FLORES HERRERA, Luz María. Injunctive Norms of Preschoolers’ Water Use Scale. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.1, pp.29-36. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2018.1.03.

The injunctive norm is defined like perceived social pressure that directly show what is approved, is relevant in young proenvironmental behavior (Grønjhø & Thøgersen, 2012), so this can get involve in preschooler proenvironmental development, specifically in the water care. To know the injunctive norm of preschoolers one way is to measure it. However, the existing scales are to young people or adults, approaching different actions to water care (Göckeritz, Schultz, Rendón, Cialdini & Goldstein, 2010; Grønjhø & Thøgersen, 2012). The aim was to make and validity a scale to measure preschooler injunctive norm about water use. The sample was integrated by 137 children intentionally selected, they were five and six years old, 56% girls, 47% of area with severe water shortage and 52% of area with little water shortage, all of them were third grade preschool. Judges validated the scale and then the researcher applied it to each child individually in classrooms and analyzed statistically the data to obtain psychometric properties. 16 items of two factors (Water care and Water waste) integrated the scale, with 43.821% of explained variance and reliability was .848. This research provides a scale validity and reliability to measure preschooler’s injunctive norm and optimum for their development stage.

Keywords : Social perception; Water care; Preschoolers; Environmental Psychology; Scale.