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The need for cognitive closure is a construct postulated by Kruglanski that explains the motivational aspects which influence decision-making and its impact on the social environment. Initially, it was assessed through a unidimensional scale, later criticized for its poor satisfactory reliability and validity. Regarding these criticisms, Pierro and Kruglanski developed a new 14-item scale to measure two dimensions, which were not previously evaluated: urgency tendency and permanence tendency. Although the Revised Test of Need for Cognitive Closure is more economical in terms of assessment time, it would be optimal to develop a reduced test that can assess faster while maintaining validity and reliability. The present research aims to reduce the Revised Test of Need for Cognitive Closure scale to the Argentinian context. To this end, we worked on a non-experimental design, assessing this scale within a sample of 690 Argentinian university students (Women = 81.16%, Men = 18.84%), and proceeded to perform reliability, as well as confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity, and factorial invariance analysis. The results indicate a bi-factorial structure of a Need for Cognitive Closure instrument with eight items and two dimensions: urgency tendency (α = 0.76) and permanence tendency (α = 0.64), suggesting good reliability in both of them. In addition, well convergent validity was checked with other validated instruments, and finally, the factor loadings were shown to be invariant. In conclusion, it was demonstrated the reliability and validity of reducing the Revised Test of Need for Cognitive Closure in our social environment.
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El perdón comenzó a ser estudiado por la psicología a fines del siglo XX intentando vislumbrar que factores psicológicos influyen en el mismo. En los últimos años, se comenzó a estudiar el papel de dos factores motivacionales como son: los modos regulatorios y la necesidad de cierre cognitivo. Por un lado, la teoría del modo regulatorio describe cómo las personas abordan las situaciones cuando desean alcanzar una meta. Por otro lado, la necesidad de cierre cognitivo es la tendencia humana de buscar certeza epistémica como modo de evitar la incertidumbre. Si bien, recientemente comenzaron a emerger una serie de estudios acerca del papel que juegan ambas variables en el perdón, aún no contamos en nuestro contexto y en nuestro idioma con estudios al respecto. La presente investigación estudiará la influencia de estas variables sobre el perdón con el objetivo de desarrollar ulteriores líneas de investigación en nuestro contexto(AU)
Forgiveness began to be studied by psychology in the late twentieth century trying to glimpse what psychological factors influence it. In recent years, the role of two motivational factors such as regulatory modes and the need for cognitive closure began to be studied. On the one hand, regulatory mode theory describes how people approach situations when they want to achieve a goal. On the other hand, the need for cognitive closure is the human tendency to seek epistemic certainty as a way to avoid uncertainty. Although a series of studies recently began to emerge on the role that both variables play in forgiveness, we do not yet have studies on this in our context and in our language. The present research will study the influence of these variables on forgiveness with the aim of developed further lines of investigation in our context(AU)
