ANÁLISIS SOBRE LA RESPONSABILIDAD PERSONAL COMO FACTOR PREDICTOR DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD RELACIONAL EN ALUMNADO UNIVERSITARIO ESPAÑOL

Abstract

Responsibility is an important factor in educating students for
freedom or self-determination. Our actions have repercussions not only on
ourselves but also on others. Forming in this dimension can also lead to know
how to make commitments with others. This article seeks to validate a scale
that helps measure the self-perception of personal and relational
responsibility in young university students that can help train them in this
double dimension and to see, if personal responsibility, is predictor of
relational responsibility. The scale was applied to 403 university students
(114 men and 289 women) between 18 and 23 years old, selected through a
simple random sampling at the Francisco de Vitoria University (Madrid).
Internal consistency analysis, parallel analysis and confirmatory factor
analysis were performed. The scale is made up of a total of 9 items, grouped
into two dimensions (relational responsibility and personal responsibility).
The scale presented adequate indicators of internal consistency (α = .678; ω =
.740) and goodness of fit (CFI = .953; IFI = .954; RMSEA = .047; χ2 / gl =
1.871). In addition, it was observed that personal responsibility predicts
12.6% of relational responsibility. In a complementary manner, significant
differences were observed in relational responsibility in favor of women. This
study presents a scale, in Spanish, with reliability and validity indicators to
measure the Self-perception of personal and relational responsibility of
university students. In addition, evidence was obtained on the predictive
capacity of personal responsibility in their relational responsibility