Diseño y Validación de la Escala de Mitos del Amor Romántico

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to design and validate the Scale of Myths of Romantic Love (SMRL) in a sample of 1168 university students (81.25% women and 18.75% men) from the Community of Madrid. Their mean age was 20.97 years old (SD=4.46). The internal structure was analyzed with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, in which four models were tested: one-factor model, two-independent factor model, two-correlated factor model, and bifactor model. The results provided evidence in favor of the unidimensionality of the SMRL and offered adequate reliability coefficients. Correlations with myths toward love and sexism confirmed the convergent validity. Using the results of the bifactor model, a short version of the scale was obtained. In conclusion, this research offers an instrument with good psychometric properties that allows analyzing the romantic love myths in the Spanish context.