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Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Complex Postformal Thought Questionnaire: Developmental Pattern and Significance and Its Relationship With Cognitive and Personality Measures

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dc.contributor.authorContreras Felipe, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorSuárez Falcón, Juan Carlos
dc.contributor.authorCaprara, María Giovanna
dc.contributor.authorPozo Cabanillas, María del Pilar
dc.contributor.authorGómez Veiga, Isabel
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-04T10:50:42Z
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dc.date.issued2023-02-01
dc.description.abstractPostformal thought is the highest state of thinking in adults, extending beyond formal operations. Sinnott’s Complex Postformal Thought Questionnaire (PFTQ) is one of the most widely used measures of this construct and thus, the main aim of this study was to translate a Spanish version of the PFTQ and to validate it using a sample of 1093 subjects aged from 18 to 71 years. A cross-validation study was carried out and measurement invariance was analyzed by gender and across age groups: emerging adults, 18-29 years; established adults, 30-45 years; and middle-aged adults, 46-60 years. Furthermore, evidence of validity was assessed relative to cognitive and personality measures (i.e.: mindfulness, grit, resilience, intolerance of uncertainty, conscientiousness, metacognition and learning strategies), as was the developmental pattern of the PFTQ. In the cross-validation study, both the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses indicated it was appropriate to consider a unidimensional structure. Likewise, the PFTQ exhibited good psychometric properties (α = .84; Ω = .83), and there was reasonable evidence of strict invariance by gender and across age groups. Moreover, the PFTQ was significantly and positively related to metacognition, learning strategies, mindfulness, conscientiousness, resilience and grit, whereas it was significantly and negatively related to intolerance of uncertainty, albeit to a lesser extent. Finally, a developmental progression of the PFTQ was observed during adulthood, with significant differences observed between the latent means of the three age groups, which was associated with moderate effect sizes between the emerging and the established or middle-age adult groups (d = 0.28 and d = 0.37, respectively). By contrast, a very small and practically negligible effect size was detected between the established and middle-aged adult groups (d = 0.09). Relativistic operations would appear to underlie psychosocial development in established adulthood, when they are most needed. Overall, the Spanish version of the PFTQ showed good psychometric properties and validity evidence of its utility to studying adult thinking.en
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dc.identifier.citationAntonio Contreras, Juan C. Suárez-Falcón, Mariagiovanna Caprara, Pilar Pozo, Isabel Gómez-Veiga, Emilia Cabras; Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Complex Postformal Thought Questionnaire: Developmental Pattern and Significance and Its Relationship With Cognitive and Personality Measures. Collabra: Psychology 3 January 2023; 9 (1): 67993. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.67993
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.67993
dc.identifier.issn2474-7394
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31011
dc.journal.issue1
dc.journal.titleCollabra: Psychology
dc.journal.volume9
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of California Press
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Psicología
dc.relation.departmentPsicología de la Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject6102.01 Psicología evolutiva
dc.subject.keywordsPostformal thoughten
dc.subject.keywordsestablished adulthooden
dc.subject.keywordsmindfulnessen
dc.subject.keywordsconscientiousnessen
dc.subject.keywordsgriten
dc.subject.keywordsresilienceen
dc.subject.keywordsintolerance of uncertaintyen
dc.subject.keywordsmetacognitionen
dc.subject.keywordslearning strategiesen
dc.titlePsychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Complex Postformal Thought Questionnaire: Developmental Pattern and Significance and Its Relationship With Cognitive and Personality Measuresen
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