Inman Richard A, Sousa Ana Margarida, Cunha Diana, Moreira Paulo
Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Lusíada-Norte (Porto), Psychology for Positive Development Research Center (CIPD), Portugal.
Scand J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Psychol. 2019 May 30;7:1-9. doi: 10.21307/sjcapp-2019-003. eCollection 2019.
The Therapeutic Reactance Scale (TRS) is a classic measure of psychological reactance, yet only two studies have evaluated its factorial structure. Both proposed different multidimensional structures based on exploratory analyses. Not only is the factorial structure of the TRS unclear, but the scale has yet to be validated in adolescents.
This study aimed to test the factorial structure of the TRS in adolescents.
The authors conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and analyses of reliability and validity, with a sample of 1,344 adolescents.
A four-factor model fits well to the data. Three of the four TRS dimensions (not susceptibility to influence, SI) were correlated with the Hong Psychological Reactance Scale (HPRS). These three dimensions were also correlated with novelty seeking, cooperativeness and persistence components of personality (Cloninger's psychobiological model of personality), while SI showed a different pattern.
Overall, this study demonstrates that the TRS is a suitable and potentially useful tool for measuring reactance in adolescents, but the authors propose that practitioners may wish to consider excluding items pertaining to the SI dimension.
治疗性反应量表（TRS）是心理反应的经典测量工具，但仅有两项研究评估了其因子结构。两项研究均基于探索性分析提出了不同的多维结构。TRS的因子结构不仅不明确，而且该量表尚未在青少年中得到验证。
本研究旨在检验TRS在青少年中的因子结构。
作者对1344名青少年样本进行了探索性和验证性因子分析，以及信效度分析。
一个四因子模型与数据拟合良好。TRS的四个维度中有三个维度（不易受影响性，SI）与香港心理反应量表（HPRS）相关。这三个维度还与人格的寻求新奇、合作性和坚持性成分（克隆宁格的人格心理生物学模型）相关，而SI呈现出不同的模式。
总体而言，本研究表明TRS是测量青少年反应性的合适且潜在有用的工具，但作者建议从业者不妨考虑排除与SI维度相关的项目。
