ADAPTAÇÃO DO METACOGNITIVE QUESTIONNAIRE ON TIME PARA O CONTEXTO BRASILEIRO: EVIDÊNCIAS VIA TEORIA DE RESPOSTA AO ITEM

Abstract

The perception of t ime passage in everyday events or situations influences the human being's interpretation and interaction with the world. Therefore, it is a constituent part of their conscious experience and is subject to the influence of different contextual and individual f actors. The Metacognitive Questionnaire on Time (MQT) is an instrument that was developed with the objective of assessing the awareness that individuals have about the factors capable of producing distortions in the experience of the passage of time, in th emselves and in others. The objective of the present study was to adapt and validate the MQT for the Brazilian context, gathering different evidence of psychometric adequacy. A total of 232 Brazilian participants, aged 18 61 years ( M = 27.7; SD = 9.57), mo stly females ( n = 156; 67.2%), participated in this research. Data collection was carried out online, through the survey method. After the initial stages of translation and semantic analysis, analyses were performed to evaluate the factor structure of the MQT subscales and the individual functioning of the items. Thus, validity and reliability parameters were tested by means of factor analyses, Cronbach's alpha coefficients, McDonald's omega coefficients, composite reliability values, and by Item Response T heory (IRT) analyses. The results suggest psychometric adequacy of the measure, pointing to a unidimensional solution with high overall factor loadings and high internal consistency in both the Self Subscale (α = 0.84; Ω = 0.84; CR = 0.84) and the Others S ubscale (α = 0.91; Ω = 0.91; CR = 0.91). Calibration of the items was performed using Muraki's Generalized Partial Credit Model. The first estimations showed the need to omit one item in each subscale for presenting low discrimination ( a ). After the omissi ons, a new estimation was performed in which all items were adequate in relation to the parameter a . Taken together, IRT analyses suggest possibilities for future refinement of the MQT. Finally, it is argued that the overall objective of the study has been achieved, so that it presents a valid and reliable measure that can be used to understand metacognitive aspects in time perception.