An earlier study(16) aimed at testing the factor validity
and reliability of the EAFAAA through factor analysis
evidenced its reliability to assess attitudes towards the
theme. The results achieved through initial
psychometric analysis(16) resulted in a satisfactory
reliability ratio for a not yet refined
instrument. Despite its good psychometric
qualities at the end of the validation process,
however, some EAFAAA factors still
continued to present low internal consistency
rates, and the instrument showed to
be too long. Among the reasons for these
results, the author appointed the technique
chosen for data analysis (factor analysis),
which may have been hampered by the
small number of respondents (144)(16), as
specialized literature on the theme(15,17) recommends
that, for this type of analysis, the
sample should be calculated, guaranteeing
between five and ten respondents for each
instrument item.
The results concluded that the EAFAAA
was unfinished and that further research would be necessary
to obtain a shorter instrument with more satisfactory
psychometric properties. Therefore, the analysis of
EAFAAA data was suggested, using other statistical techniques
that would be more adequate for the analysis
model, with a view to guaranteeing a preliminary instrument
with more satisfactory psychometric properties(16).
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