DOI

10.22550/REP79-3-2021-03

Abstract

Friendship is an important bond in the personal and social growth of an individual and plays a prominent role during youth. Most scales to measure it are aimed at children and adolescents but none measure character friendship, a type of selfless friendship with ethical traits an d Aristotelian roots. Therefore, the aim of the research is to design and validate the youth Character Friendship Scale (CFS) in a sample of 1587 young Spanish people. The final version of the CFS is composed of 35 items distributed over three dimensions: "Selfless love and intimacy" (21), "Trust" (7) and "Respect and forgiveness" (7) with ordinal reliability coefficients of 0.94, 0.79 and 0.7 respectively and good model fits (CFI = 0.986; TLI = 0.986; RMSEA = 0.043; SRMR = 0.054; GFI = 0.997). It is concluded that the CFS is a scale with good psychometric properties for measuring character friendship in young adults.

The results obtained from its application will lead to a better understanding of the importance of character friendship for the socioemotional development or happiness of young adults and will enable the development of intervention programmes that enhance aspects of friendship such as trust, respect, forgiveness or mutual knowledge, which can facilitate collaborative relationships and contribute to social cohesion.

Please, cite this article as follows: Romero-Iribas, A., & Camilli-Trujillo, C. (2023). Diseño y validación de una Escala de Amistad de Carácter para jóvenes [Design and validation of a Character Friendship Scale for young adults]. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 81 (286), 529-553. 10.22550/REP81-3-2023-05

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Author Biography

Ana Romero-Iribas holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad de Navarra and is Associate Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where she teaches Educational Ethics. Fullbright Fellow at Harvard (2022-2023). Member of the Research and Educational Improve- ment (IMEI) and AVANTE Teaching Inno- vation groups at the URJC. Her research focuses on the ethics of education and the philosophy of friendship and interpersonal relationships. Visiting Scholar at the uni- versities of Harvard, Leeds and Navarra.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5693-0026

Celia Camilli-Trujillo. PhD in Edu- cation from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Associate Professor in the De- partment of Research and Psychology in Education (UCM) in Research Methodolo- gy subjects. Member of the Adaptive Ped- agogy Research Group (PROFICIENCyIn +EDU, RTI2018-096761-B-I00. MCI/AEI/ FEDER, UE, PROFICIENCyIn+E, EDU 2015-63844-R. MINECO/FEDER). Her lines of interest focus on systematic re- views, qualitative research, and mixed methods research.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7181-0068

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Romero-Iribas, A., y Camilli-Trujillo, C. (2023). Diseño y validación de una Escala de Amistad de Carácter para jóvenes [Design and validation of a Character Friendship Scale for young adults]. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 81 (286), 529-553. 10.22550/REP81-3-2023-05