Abstract

ANGEL RAMIREZ, Judith Guadalupe  and  RIVERA ARAGON, Sofía. Construction and Validation of a Scale of Couple Separation Behaviors. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2023, vol.13, n.2, pp.64-75.  Epub Nov 14, 2023. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2023.2.487.

Research on a couple’s breakup aims to measure the strategies and behaviors that people carry out to end their romantic relationships. We propose to understand couple separation based on Rusbult’s Reversal Model (1979). It is revealing to test the model including psychometric elements that allow us to understand its validity. Thus, the purpose of this study was to test an exploratory and confirmatory analysis of a scale that measures the behaviors that people perform to end their relationship. The initial version of the scale had 50 items on a Likert scale, applied online to 230 adults in Mexico City and Metropolitan Area. At the beginning of the exploratory factor analysis, a final scale of 18 items distributed in 4 factors (distancing, confrontation, depression due to separation and infidelity) was obtained, explaining 68.47% of the variance explained with a reliability of α = .871. This structure was corroborated by a Confirmatory Factor Analysis. A robust and reliable scale is found, and it is concluded that the separation behaviors evaluated from the distance with the ex-partner, which can be through communication or exercising behaviors that transgress such as infidelity, mainly affect the emotional state of the people who live it.

Keywords : Break-up; Couple; Estrangement; Dating; Ghosting; Adults.

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